Abstract
Among the growing body of literature about selfhood and identity, writings of the late Gordon Allport provide a set of notable definitions that are es pecially relevant to the relationships of psychology and religion. While All port's perspective is distinctive in several ways, which we shall summarize at the end of this paper, probably his best-known and most important contribu tion is that of a methodological polarity. In terms of modern psychology, this was exemplified in his contrast between the Lockean and Leibnitzian tradi tions. The former is characterized by a view of the mind as essentially passive, while in the latter it is regarded as active or dynamic.1 This contrast is paral lelled by one in the study of religious behavior and experience?that of ex trinsic and intrinsic or immature and mature religion.
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