Nine hypothetical stages for religious development are described, according to a preceding article printed in this journal. Under the light of this theoretical construction some personal reports of religious history are qualitatively analysed. Main conclusions are: 1) the nine stages model of the religious development allows a deep understanding of the personal reports; 2) there is a close relationship between the religious and the psychological side of the personal development; 3) the religious development degree depends more on the character of the relationship with the religious object than on the professed religion; 4) the stage of religious development of a person does not always depend on what it would be expected for his or her age, and it could be related with other aspects of lhe psychological development in general.
psychological development; religion; religiousness; religious development