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A most accursed religion : when a trauma becomes God / Greg Mogenson.

Title
A most accursed religion : when a trauma becomes God / Greg Mogenson.
Author
Mogenson, Greg, 1959-
Publication
Putnam, Conn. : Spring Publications, 2005.

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Description
203 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Despite its title, this book is not about theology. When a psychologist writes of God, he must do so within the confines of his own field of inquiry, the psyche. Mogenson's aim is to focus attention on the religious dimension of the psychology of those overwhelming events we describe as traumatic"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Accidents > Religious aspects
  • Disasters > Psychology
  • Disasters > Religious aspects
  • God > Wrath
  • Life change events > Religious aspects
  • Psychology, Religious
  • Traumatism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. The trauma-God -- Ch. 2. Healing through heresy -- Ch. 3. Repeating, imagining, and making a crust -- Ch. 4. Like cures like -- Ch. 5. The trauma of incarnation and the sur-natural soul.
ISBN
  • 0882145525 (pbk. original : alk. paper)
  • 9780882145525
LCCN
^^2005032999
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library