Supernatural - Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World

Informationen zum Autor Clay Routledge is a professor and psychological scientist at North Dakota State University who studies human motivation. Much of his work focuses on how people grapple with existential questions and fear about death and meaning. He regularly publishes his work in academic journals and writes for the public on a range of topics related to psychology, academia, and broader social issues. Klappentext Humans--even those who consider themselves secular or atheists--are utterly seduced by supernatural beliefs. Clay Routledge, an experimental social psychologist who grew up in a deeply religious environment, argues that belief or trust in forces beyond our understanding is natural and rooted in our fears of death. In Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, Routledge argues that supernatural thinking is adaptive, even healthy, and that it should unite and not divide us.

Product details

• Authors: Clay Routledge, Routledge Clay
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780190629427
• ISBN: 978-0-19-062942-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Religious issues & debates, Social, group or collective psychology, Religious issues and debates