Terror and Transformation: The Ambiguity of Religion in Psychoanalytic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781583911938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 144 str.

James William Jones; W. Jones James

Opis

Drawing on the work of various contemporary relational theorists within psychoanalysis, this text develops a psychoanalytically informed theory of the transforming and terror-producing effects of religious experience.

Spis treści

Introduction: Religion and its Ambiguities. Religion and Idealization. Clinical Illustrations. A Psychology of the Sacred. Idealization and Religious Fanaticism. Idealization and Transformation. Religion Without Idealization - Is It Possible? Epilogue. Bibliography.

O autorze

James W Jones is Professor of Religion, Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University, New Jersey and Lecturer in Religion and Psychiatry at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He has doctorates in both clinical psychology and philosophy of religion and has a long history of successful publishing in religious and psychoanalytic subjects.