1. To grasp the object and method of the psychology of religion within the context of general psychology and its applications. 2. To understand how that development occurs throughout the life cycle. 3. To analyse the heredity-through-development relationship as well as the effect of socialization on personality maturing processes. 4. To understand how the religious development involves the entire personality. 5. To learn about the theories of psychological development. 6. To recognize the influence of psychological development on religious behaviour. 7. To learn about the religious development processes and the major theories that systematize them. 8. To extract pedagogical consequences from the religious development processes studied.