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It is not by coincidence that the key figures in the psychology of religion - William James, Rudolf Otto, Carl Jung, and Erik Erikson - each fought a lifelong battle with melancholia, argues Donald Capps in this engrossing book. These four men experienced similar traumas in early childhood: each perceived a loss of mother's unconditional love. In the deep melancholy that resulted, they turned to religion. Capps contends that the main impetus for men to become religious lies in such melancholia, and that these four authors were typical, although their losses were especially severe because of complicating personal circumstances. Offering a new way of viewing the major classics in the psychology of religion, Capps explores the psychological origins of these authors' own religious visions through a sensitive examination of their writings.
It is not by coincidence that the key figures in the psychology of religion - William James, Rudolf Otto, Carl Jung, and Erik Erikson - each fought a lifelong battle with melancholia, argues Donald Capps in this engrossing book. These four men experienced similar traumas in early childhood: each perceived a loss of mother's unconditional love. In the deep melancholy that resulted, they turned to religion. Capps contends that the main impetus for men to become religious lies in such melancholia, and that these four authors were typical, although their losses were especially severe because of complicating personal circumstances. Offering a new way of viewing the major classics in the psychology of religion, Capps explores the psychological origins of these authors' own religious visions through a sensitive examination of their writings.
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- The Numinous and Modernity: An Interpretation of Rudolf Otto's Philosophy of Religion (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaf (Beihefte ... Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft) by Todd A. Gooch in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits by Peter McDonough in Back Matter
- Young Clergy: A Biographical-Developmental Study (Haworth Series in Chaplaincy) by Donald Capps in Front Matter
- Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts by Diane Jonte-Pace in Back Matter
- The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion (Blackwell Companions to Religion) by Richard K. Fenn in Table of Contents
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