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  • Disciplining Freud on Religion

    Perspectives from the Humanities and Sciences

    by Jacob Belzen, Kelly Bulkeley, Michael Carroll, Jean-Joseph Goux, Diane Jonte-Pace, Gregory Kaplan, William B. Parsons, Bettina Bergo ...
    It is well known that in formulating his general theoretical framework and views on religion Freud drew on multiple disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as from the humanities. This edited collection adds to the continued multidisciplinary interest in Freud by focusing on his understanding and interpretation of and relationship to religion. It 'disciplines' Freud by ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Towards Cultural Psychology of Religion

    Principles, Approaches, Applications

    by Jacob A. v. van Belzen ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The aims pursued in this book are quite modest. The text is not an introduction in the traditional sense to any psychological subdiscipline or field of application, nor does it present anything essentially new. Rather, it shows ‘work in progress’, as it attempts to contribute to an integration of two differently structured, but already existing fields within psychology. In order to explain this, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Psychology of Religion

    Autobiographical Accounts

    Edited by Jacob A. van Belzen ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    In the past four decades or so, the so-called psychology of religion – after having been deemed extinct, impossible or unlikely – has risen to prominence again: the number of publications is rapidly growing, an impressive secondary literature (handbooks, introductions, etc.) is available already, infrastructure has been developed (a number of new journals devoted to the subject have been founded, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • A Critical History and Philosophy of Psychology

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    by Thomas Teo, Angelina Baydala, Richard T. G. Walsh ...
    In line with the British Psychological Society's recent recommendations for teaching the history of psychology, this comprehensive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the philosophical, cultural and social elements that influenced psychology's development. The authors demonstrate that psychology is both a human (i.e. psychoanalytic or phenomenological) and natural (i.e. cognitive) science, exploring ... Read more

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  • Religious Experience Reconsidered

    A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things

    by Ann Taves ...
    How the sciences of the mind can advance the study of religionThe essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious experience in the study of religion, an approach that effectively isolated the study of ... Read more

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  • A Systems Theory of Religion

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by David Brenner, Adrian Hermann ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology of religion. Religion, for Luhmann, is one of the many functionally differentiated social systems ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cold War Freud

    Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes

    by Dagmar Herzog ...
    In Cold War Freud Dagmar Herzog uncovers the astonishing array of concepts of human selfhood which circulated across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. Against the backdrop of Nazism and the Holocaust, the sexual revolution, feminism, gay rights, and anticolonial and antiwar activism, she charts the heated battles which raged over Freud's legacy. From the postwar US to Europe and Latin ... Read more

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  • Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

    Concepts and Applications

    by Fraser Watts ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
    Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality provides readers with a critical overview of what psychology tells us about religion and spirituality. It is concise without being simplistic, and the first such broad overview to be published for some years. Fraser Watts recognizes that 'religion' is complex and multi-faceted, taking different forms in different people and contexts. The book presents a broad ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Psychology and Catholicism

    Contested Boundaries

    by Robert Kugelmann ...
    In this study of psychology and Catholicism, Kugelmann aims to provide clarity in an area filled with emotion and opinion. From the beginnings of modern psychology to the mid-1960s, this complicated relationship between science and religion is methodically investigated. Conflicts such as the boundary of 'person' versus 'soul', contested between psychology and the Church, are debated thoroughly. ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Theories of Religion

    A Critical Companion

    Edited by Michael Stausberg ...
    Interest in theories of religion has never been greater. Scholars debate single theoretical approaches in different scholarly journals, while the ‘new atheists’ such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett criticize the whole idea of religion. For everyone eager to understand the current state of the field, Contemporary Theories of Religion surveys the neglected landscape in its totality.Michael ... Read more

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  • The Self Beyond Itself

    An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will

    by Heidi M. Ravven ...
    "Intertwines history, philosophy, and science . . . A powerful challenge to conventional notions of individual responsibility" ( Publishers Weekly).Few concepts are more unshakable in our culture than free will, the idea that individuals are fundamentally in control of the decisions they make, good or bad. And yet the latest research about how the brain functions seems to point in the opposite ... Read more

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