Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences - A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Pre and Perinatal Religious Development. (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Religion
Release date:	April 2022
First published:	2020
Authors:	Helen Holmes
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-51755-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	0-367-51755-8
Barcode:	9780367517557

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