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Religion, Narcissism and Fanaticism - Tamas Pataki

Religion, Narcissism and Fanaticism

The Arrogance of Gods

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-72494-2 (ISBN)
CHF 54,90 inkl. MwSt
Religion, Narcissism and Fanaticism traces the historical and psychosocial development of religiosity and applies anthropological and psychoanalytic perspectives to the understanding of religions, particularly their fanatical and fundamentalist expressions.

Religious ideology, practices and institutions satisfy many human needs, including those arising from our hysterical, obsessional, and narcissistic dispositions: the need to segregate the good and bad aspects of our personalities; to belong to an idealized group; and to feel secure and special by identifying with, or living in the orbit of, a supposedly omnipotent figure. But these needs and their modes of satisfaction are distorted by religions which may then nurture and accommodate malign characteristics, especially in the case of the monotheisms, narcissistic inflation or grandiosity. The book shows how interactions between religious ideology and personal development become intricated in the narcissistic pathology which underlies much of the violence and religious aggression in the world today. It presents both a new account of the historical and psychosocial development of religiosity and a powerful polemic against the religions which delusorily satisfy some of the very needs they create.

The book will appeal to psychoanalysts, anthropologists, philosophers, sociologists, and all those interested in the place of religion in the modern world.

Tamas Pataki is Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Author of Against Religion, Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, and co-editor of Racism in Mind. He has also published journal articles and book chapters on the philosophy of mind and religion, most recently in The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy.

Part 1: Theory 1. The Advent of Spirits and the Birth of Religion 2. Mysticism, Intellectualism and the Poverty of Cognitivism 3. For the Love of Gods 4. Narcissism in Religion Part 2: Polemic 5. The New Atheism and the New Fanaticism 6. Sexual Morality and Law 7. Agression in Religion 8. Reason and Religion

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 367 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-72494-3 / 1032724943
ISBN-13 978-1-032-72494-2 / 9781032724942
Zustand Neuware
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