Death Anxiety and Religious Belief: An Existential Psychology of Religion 9781472571625

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Автор: Jonathan Jong, Jamin Halberstadt
Название: Death Anxiety and Religious Belief: An Existential Psychology of Religion
ISBN: 9781472571625
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Классификация:

Религиозные проблемы и дикуссии

Социология: смерть и дряхление

Психологические теории и школы мысли

ISBN-10: 1472571622
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 25.08.2016
Серия: Scientific studies of religion: inquiry and explanation
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 164 x 241 x 23
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: Religion & beliefs,Religion: general,Religion & science, RELIGION / General,RELIGION / Psychology of Religion
Основная тема: Religion & beliefs,RELIGION / Psychology of Religion,RELIGION / General,Religion & science,Religion: general
Подзаголовок: An existential psychology of religion
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest speculations about the origins of religion. There are hints of this idea in the ancient world, but the theory achieves prominence in the works of Enlightenment critics and Victorian theorists of religion, and has been further developed by contemporary cognitive scientists. Why do people believe in gods? Because they fear death.

Yet despite the abiding appeal of this simple hypothesis, there has not been a systematic attempt to evaluate its central claims and the assumptions underlying them. Do human beings fear death? If so, who fears death more, religious or nonreligious people? Do reminders of our mortality really motivate religious belief? Do religious beliefs actually provide comfort against the inevitability of death?

In Death Anxiety and Religious Belief, Jonathan Jong and Jamin Halberstadt begin to answer these questions, drawing on the extensive literature on the psychology of death anxiety and religious belief, from childhood to the point of death, as well as their own experimental research on conscious and unconscious fear and faith. In the course of their investigations, they consider the history of ideas about religions origins, challenges of psychological measurement, and the very nature of emotion and belief.
Дополнительное описание: List of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. The whats and whys of religious belief 2. A history of thanatocentric theories of religion 3. Measuring faith and fear 4. Are people afraid of death? 5. The religious correlates of death anxiety

Death Anxiety and Religious Belief: An Existential Psychology of Religion, Jonathan Jong, Jamin Halberstadt