Summary One of the crucial problems of a psychology of religion is: how to do justice to the specific character of a concrete religion, at the same time maintaining scientific neutrality. Moving outside the context of a concrete specific religion, psychology is in danger of getting entangled in too general speculations about vague phenomena, of which the religious coefficient remains undeterminate; operating within the intention of a religion, it might abdicate its objectivity. With respect to religious experience, the problem narrows down to the question, how a psychology of religion might take into due consideration the transcendent reality, which occupies such a central position within certain varieties of religion, as for instance in the case of Christianity. If religious experience might have the character of a transcending process, how could this process be described and interpreted in psychological terms? There is an additional aggravating complication, however, at the moment “transcendence” has to...