Fraser Watts, Mark Williams

The Psychology of Religious Knowing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 235g
• ISBN-13: 9780521033848
• ISBN-10: 0521033845
• Artikelnr.: 22580934

Autorenporträt

Fraser Watts is a Visiting Professor in Psychology and Religion at the University of Lincoln. He was the first Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Science at Cambridge University until his retirement in 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Psychological research on religion
3. Psychoanalytic approaches to relgious experience
4. Faith and knowledge
5. Analogues of religious knowing
6. Emotional regulation and relgious attentivness
7. Self knowledge and knowledge of God
8. The interpretation of experience in prayer
9. Concepts of God
10. Recapitulation
Notes
Index.