| Religion, Society, And Psychoanalysis: Readings In Contemporary Theory Contributor(s): Jacobs, Janet L. (Author), Capps, Donald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813326486 ISBN-13: 9780813326481 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: Religion clearly remains a powerful social and political force in Western society. Using historical framework, this collection of new essays brings together contemporary scholarship on religion and psychoanalysis. These various yet related psychoanalytic interpretations of religious symbolism and commitment offer a unique social analysis on the meaning of religion. A powerful work that fills a void in the social psychology of religion. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Religion |
| Dewey: 200.19 |
| LCCN: 97000573 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.92" W x 8.97" (0.84 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic |
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| Publisher Description: Religion clearly remains a powerful social and political force in Western society. Freudian-based theory continues to inform psychoanalytic investigations into personality development, gender relations, and traumatic disorders. Using a historical framework, this collection of new essays brings together contemporary scholarship on religion and psychoanalysis. These various yet related psychoanalytic interpretations of religious symbolism and commitment offer a unique social analysis on the meaning of religion.Beginning with Freud's views on religion and mystical experience and continuing with those of Horney, Winnicott, Kristeva, Miller, and others, this volume surveys the work of three generations of psychoanalytic theorists. Special attention is given to objects relations theory and ego psychology, as well as to the recent work from the European tradition. Distinguished contributors provide a basic overview of a given theorist's scholarship and discuss its place in the evolution of psychoanalytic thought as it relates to the role that religion plays in modern culture.Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis marks a major, interdisciplinary step forward in filling the void in the social-psychology of religion. It is an extremely useful handbook for students and scholars of psychology and religion. |