Psychology of Religious Knowing

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge. Zusammenfassung The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge. It is argued that the ways in which people come to know other things! in particular how people arrive at personal insights! is close at many points to how they arrive at religious insights. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Fraser Watts, Fraser N. Williams Watts, Fraser Williams Watts, Mark Williams
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2007
• EAN: 9780521033848
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03384-8
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works