Hans Mol was born in the Netherlands during the 1920s. His imprisonment by the Gestapo
during World War II began a long intellectual journey, exploring the role of religion in society …

This chapter is grounded in its own theoretical proposition that ideas become values if and
when pervaded by emotions; that such values become beliefs if they confer a sense of …

In this paper, the identity theory of religion outline by sociologist Hans Mol in the 1970s is
introduced and located among the various competing theories of the mid-20th century …

Although the historical record denies us a clear consensus from the academic community,
the most common response to Hans Mol's identity theory was to denounce its ostensible …