Religion, Narcissism and Fanaticism

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.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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