God, Freud and religion : the origins of faith, fear and fundamentalism / Dianna T. Kenny.
God, Freud and religion : the origins of faith, fear and fundamentalism / Dianna T. Kenny.
God, Freud and religion : the origins of faith, fear and fundamentalism / Dianna T. Kenny.
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London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2015.
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G 2016/2101
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English
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viii, 223 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Science, God and religion -- Does God exist? -- The common origins in human nature of taboos, conscience, neurosis and religion -- Freud, religion, culture and philosophy -- Freud, the demonic, madness, and the fanciful -- Critiques of Freud's theory on religion -- Group psychology and the psychoana...
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London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2015.
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2015.
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Did God create man or did man create God? In this book, Dianna Kenny examines religious belief through a variety of perspectives - psychoanalytic, cognitive, neuropsychological, sociological, historical and psychiatric - to provide a coherent account of why people might believe in God. She argues that psychoanalytic theory provides a fertile and cr...
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God, Freud and religion : the origins of faith, fear and fundamentalism / Dianna T. Kenny.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-215) and index.
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G 2016/2101
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74VKzbq2qMvA
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9781138791329
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991023563009702626
