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28- Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Pageau Q&A at Seattle Conference - Oct. 2017

The Symbolic World

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The Relationship Between Religious Temperament and Political Experience

In the varieties of religious experience, William James spoke of the religious temperament. Do you see any correlation between innate temperament and personality and religious experience? So yeah, we've done some studies on that. If you imagine that a religious system has two elements, let's call it the dogmatic element and the mystical element,. The mystics are the liberals and the ones who are more concerned with the dogmatic Element are the conservatives.

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