Several fields outside religious studies proper deal with aspects of religion from their particular perspectives. This seeks to assess the grounds people have offered to justify believing in God. This discipline seeks to understand the psychological origins of religion and the way it functions in the personality. It deals, for example, with such topics as religious experience, conversion, faith, prayer, and worship. Sociology of Religion.
Sociologists are interested in religion in so far as religion takes institutional forms.
They look for the possible social origins of religion and seek to understand how religion functions in society. Religion as an academic discipline belongs to the Humanities, those studies which deal with the unique creations of the human spirit, such as philosophy, literature and language. The humanities have long been recognized as an integral part of a liberal arts education. Religion has been and is an essential part of human culture. Thus, an informed person should have an acquaintance with this subject.