Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books
by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
International Best Seller
"I agree with Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way." - Daniel C. Dennett
Two Hundred Thousand years ago, we the sapiens were just a newly evolved species in a corner of Africa. Eventually we transformed ourselves into the master of the...
by Chris Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
This book challenges both conservative religion and fundamentalist atheism (and will probably upset adherents of both), offering a secular spirituality that can be embraced by people of differing faith traditions and none. Drawing on his ministry as a Christian priest and psychotherapist, Chris Scott...
by Docamali Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Organised religions and rituals are mushrooming and so are adherents and devotees.The message in most religions is “love” and yet there is great violence created in by the supremacy between religions themselves. Each attempting to compete for its proliferation at the expense of the virtues...
The Genocide Contagion
How We Commit and Confront Holocaust and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In The Genocide Contagion, Israel W. Charny asks uncomfortable questions about what allows people to participate in genocide—either directly, through killing or other violent acts, or indirectly, by sitting passively while witnessing genocidal acts. Charny draws on both historical and current examples...
Spiritual, but not Religious
Understanding Unchurched America
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Nearly 40% of all Americans have no connection with organized religion. Yet many of these people, even though they might never step inside a house of worship, live profoundly spiritual lives. But what is the nature and value of unchurched spirituality in America? Is it a recent phenomenon, a New Age...
Modes of Religiosity
A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2004
Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At the...
Heal Thyself
Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2002
In recent years, a movement stressing a causal relationship between spirituality and good health has captured the public imagination. Told that research demonstrates that people of strong faith are healthier, physicians and clergy alike urge us to become more religious. The religion and health movement,...
Il pesce e la pietra
Psicoanalisi dei fenomeni religiosi
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Il confronto tra psicoanalisi e spiritualità è una tematica che fin dai suoi esordi ha impegnato e appassionato gli specialisti di quella che Freud definì scienza dell’inconscio. Attraverso una rivisitazione ad ampio respiro delle opere di autori dell’importanza di Jung, Fromm, Hillman e ovviamente...
The New American Judaism
The Way Forward on Challenging Issues from Intermarriage to Jewish Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Popular Washington, D.C. rabbi and psychotherapist Arthur Blecher believes that the American Jewish community is actually flourishing amidst fears of dying out. He shows us that intermarriage strengthens Judaism--a concept that many Jews continue to debate. In straightforward and engaging chapters,...
Supernatural Agents
Why We Believe in Souls, Gods, and Buddhas
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The cognitive science of religion is a rapidly growing field whose practitioners apply insights from advances in cognitive science in order to provide a better understanding of religious impulses, beliefs, and behaviors. In this book Ilkka Pyysiäinen shows how this methodology can profitably be used...
by Diana Schultz
Language: German
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Religionspsychologie, Note: 2,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Geistlicher Missbrauch kommt in vielen Kirchen und Gemeinden vor. Das belegen zahlreiche Berichte von Betroffenen. Er findet inmitten eines geistlichen Umfelds statt und ist meist...
by Jeff Sharlet
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
“A master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion’s underexplored realms.”—Michael Washburn, Washington Post
In this gorgeous collection of essays that has drawn comparisons to the work of Joan Didion, John McPhee, and Norman Mailer, best-selling author...
Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens
Neurotheology Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
“Sapiens doesn't mean being smart - it means being smart enough to know the most suitable, productive and progressive combination of intellect and emotions in a certain situation and to make that combination manifest most graciously through behavior.”
Abhijit Naskar, a globally acclaimed...
Sacred Pain
Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet? In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich...