This research, in a first moment, constructs a psychological model for religious development describing nine developmental stages along the life span. This construction is based on other researches about personal development, and also on the author experience reflecting with common people groups about personal development. Each stage is defined following some central basic experiences: truth, symbolic construction of the world (Ianguage), courage and enterprise, personal choice, intimacy, generating and nursing, freedom, just living, and surrender. The religious development stages, then, describe these experiences at the view point of the relationship with the religious object. - This article will be continued in another one, when sone personal repports of the religious history are presented and analysed according to the lights of this model.
psychological development; religion; religiousness; religious development
