Research Catalog

Title

Psychology and religion : eight points of view / Andrew R. Fuller.

Author

Fuller, Andrew Reid.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Littlefield Adams, ©1994.

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Details

Description

xiii, 302 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Littlefield, Adams quality paperback.

Uniform Title

Littlefield, Adams quality paperback

Alternative Title

Psychology & religion.

Subject

• Psychology and religion
• Psychoanalysis and religion
• Psychology, Religious > History
• Religion and Psychology
• Psychology, Religious
• Psychologische aspecten
• Religieuze ervaring

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Cover title: Psychology & religion.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

William James. The will to believe ; Human selectivity ; The varieties of religious experience -- Sigmund Freud. Religion and the oceanic feeling ; Religion as illusion ; Religion as historical truth ; Freud and eros -- Carl Jung. The reality of the psyche ; The unconscious ; Libido and its transformation ; Archetypes and myth ; Individuatioin ; Archetypes as gods ; The self as an image of God in the psyche ; The microcosmic character of the self ; Religion ; Psychology and Christian doctrines ; The continuing incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection ; Spirit ; Psychology and Eastern religions ; The relativity of God -- Gordon Allport. Mature religion ; Faith ; Religion and science ; Intentionality and religious behavior ; Conscience ; Prayer, ritual, and doctrine ; Neurosis ; Mystical experience ; Religious language ; Responses to some objections to religion ; Immature religion ; Religion and love ; Religion and prejudice -- Abraham Maslow. Plea for an expanded science ; Assumptions of Maslow's psychology of health ; The basic needs ; The need for self-actualization ; The realm of being ; Peak experiences ; Plateau experiences ; Human nature in the light of being-psychology ; Being-psychology and religious experience ; Transpersonal psychology ; Problems and prospects in conventional religion ; Possible points of agreement -- Alan Watts. The problem ; Experience rather than words ; Realization ; Relatedness ; The eternal now ; Spontaneity ; Death ; Evil ; Realization and conduct -- Erich Fromm. The contemporary human situation ; The birth of the human being ; The religious need ; Some contemporary forms of religiousness ; Authoritarian religion ; Humanistic religion ; Being versus having ; Faith ; Love ; Ritual ; Psychology and ethics ; Conscience ; Religious experience ; Thought-concepts and religious experience ; Humanistic goals ; Threats to religion ; The existence of God ; Is God dead? -- Viktor Frankl. The essence of existence ; Phenomenology and religion -- Developments. Donald Winnicott ; Ana-Maria Rizzuto ; Paul Pruyser ; Antoine Vergote ; Bernard Spilka ; Daniel Batson ; Roger Sperry.

ISBN

• 0822630362
• 9780822630364

LCCN

94020210

OCLC

• ocm30510753
• 30510753
• SCSB-2093668

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library