Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Pre and Perinatal Religious Development. (Routledge Studies in Religion)

Synopsis

There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to seek the supernatural and the divine comes from. This book adds a new and innovative perspective to this line of thought by being the first to link prenatal and perinatal experiences to the origins of these unconscious underpinnings of our shared images of God. The book poses a ground-breaking paradigm by thinking about our earliest images of God, whether theist or atheist, within a psychoanalytic framework, comparing and contrasting the thought of Freud and Rizzuto. It looks at the issue of images of God from a diversity of psychological perspectives including, attachment theory, developmental theory and bio-psychosocial perspectives. This analysis leads to the conclusion that in parallel to postnatal findings, uterine and birth experiences can predispose individuals to form God representations later in life, through underpinning affective and environmental factors.　 This is a bold study of the development of one of humanity’s most fundamental aspects. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of the psychology of religion, psychology, psychoanalysis, religious studies and early infant development.

Copyright:

2020

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ISBN-13:

9781000090475

Related ISBNs:

9780429273490, 9780367517557, 9780367517557, 9780367221447, 9780367221447

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/03/20

Copyrighted By:

Helen Holmes, The right of Helen Holmes to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections

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No

Language:

English

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Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Religion and Spirituality, Psychology, Sociology

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