Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books
The Knowledge That Leads to Wholeness
Gnostic Myths Behind Jung's Theory of Individuation
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
The Knowledge that Leads to Wholeness is the first book to specifically illustrate how the major Gnostic myths underlie Jungs theory of individuation. It is a compelling and in-depth examination of a life-changing journey that begins with the author discovering the forgotten secrets of the Gnostics....
by Emmanuel Virina
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
In 1965 Dr William Thetford, former Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City expressed his frustrations to his colleague Dr Helen Schucman about the antagonistic and competitive work environment they operated in, and that he, as the...
Born Believers
The Science of Children's Religious Belief
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Infants have a lot to make sense of in the world: Why does the sun shine and night fall; why do some objects move in response to words, while others won’t budge; who is it that looks over them and cares for them? How the developing brain grapples with these and other questions leads children, across...
What Should I Believe?
Why Our Beliefs about the Nature of Death and the Purpose of Life Dominate Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Suddenly, in the twenty-first century, religion has become a political power. It affects us all, whether we’re religious or not. If we’re not in danger of being blown up by a suicide bomber we’ve got leaders to whom God speaks, ordering them to start a war. We’re beset by people who demand...
Horror and Its Aftermath
Reconsidering Theology and Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Theological anthropology often brings psychology to bear on the contingent nature of human existence in relationship to God. In this volume, Sally Stamper articulates one modern trajectory of theological recourse to psychology (comprising Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, and Tillich) as the ground on which...
Christ and Freud (RLE: Freud)
A Study of Religious Experience and Observance
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Originally published in 1959, this book is primarily concerned with the question of psychiatric factors in religion, and, conversely, with that of religious factors in psychiatry. It rejects the Freudian theory that religion is a form of obsessional neurosis. Though this latter hypothesis may explain...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: German
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Dieses eBook: "Die Zukunft einer Illusion" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Zukunft einer Illusion ist eine 1927 erschienene Schrift von Sigmund Freud. Sie gilt als sein Hauptwerk über die Religion, als zeitgenössisches...
Gedanken über die Religion
Philosophie, Moral, Religion und schöne Wissenschaften - Von der Autorität in Betreff der Philosophie + Betrachtungen über die Mathematik im Allgemeinen + Von der Kunst zu überzeugen + Dasein Gottes
Language: German
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Dieses eBook: "Gedanken über die Religion" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Les Pensées ('die Gedanken') ist einer der meistgelesenen philosophischen bzw. theologischen Texte der europäischen Geistesgeschichte....
by Erika Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Applying recent psychological and neuropsychological studies of emotions, Erika Wilson explores the role of emotions in major Eastern, Western, and primal religions, as well as in some contemporary spiritual movements. The book tries to answer the following questions: What kinds of emotions and spiritual...
Contemplation in a World of Action
Second Edition, Restored and Corrected
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1998
The spiritual and psychological insights of these essays were nurtured in a monastic milieu, but their issues are universally human. Thomas Merton lays a foundation for personal growth and transformation through fidelity to "our own truth and inner being." His main focus is our desire and...
by W. T. Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
"What's God Got to Do with It?" presents compelling evidence from the bible as well as science that the idea of god is a human invention. W.T. Jeffrey brings professionalism and compassion together to help readers cope with the psychology of denial and recognize the human connections that...
by Lisa Bond
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
"Some of the ideas you will find hard to believe, and others you will find quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge the ideas at all. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will showy...
Freud's India
Sigmund Freud and India's First Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and those with pluralistic maternal deities is a theme of abiding interest in religious studies. Attempts to understand the implications of these two vast organizing principles for religious life lead to an overwhelmingly diverse...
Generation to Generation
Family Process in Church and Synagogue
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
This acclaimed, influential work applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations. Edwin H. Friedman shows how the same understanding of family process that can aid clergy in their pastoral role also has important ramifications for negotiating congregational dynamics...