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Author Floyer Acland, Andrew

Title Religious Hatred and Human Conflict Psychodynamic Approaches to Insight and Intervention
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (212 p.)
Contents Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Contexts and cultures -- Chapter 1 Beginning, background and biases -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Three backstories -- Conflict resolution and transformation -- The psychology of religion -- Psychodynamic psychology -- Inspirational beginnings: Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung -- Rehabilitating Jung -- Beyond Freud and Jung -- Notes -- Part 2 What is religious hatred? -- Chapter 3 Thinking about religious hatred -- Anatomies of hatred -- Hatred and evolution -- Hatred and the Other
From hatred to genocide -- Hatred and thoughtcrime -- Religion and hatred as addictions -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Psychodynamic approaches to religious hatred -- Complexes -- Complexes and religious traditions -- Cultural complexes -- The Shadow -- Complexes and Shadows in transmission -- Notes -- Part 3 Religious hatred and the dimensions of religion -- Chapter 5 Six dimensions of religion -- Dimensions of religion -- The dimensions of religion, religious hatred and the problem of evil -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The identity dimension -- Religion and identity
Conflicting religious identities and the idea of the "Other" -- The narcissism of small differences -- The Persona, the Shadow and the Other -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The doctrine and practice dimension -- Religious doctrine and the Golem Effect -- Fundamentalism -- Fundamentalism, hatred and violence -- The psychology of fundamentalist doctrine and practice -- Groups and group practices -- Fundamentalism as a form of cultural complex -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The emotional and experiential dimension -- The missing dimension -- Marks of religious experience -- Emotions and religious experience
The psychology of religious experience -- Religious hatred and the Divided Self -- Healing the Divided Self -- Religious hatred as the failure to individuate -- Hatred and the Self -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The mythological dimension -- Approaching mythology -- Social impacts of myth -- Impacts of myth on individuals -- Mythology and religious hatred -- Modern myths -- Cosmic wars -- When myth leads to martyrdom -- The psychology of Armageddon -- Mythmaking and scapegoating -- Notes -- Chapter 10 The sacred values dimension -- The nature of sacred values -- Sacred values and personal motivation
Valuing sacred values -- Pseudo-sacred values -- Secular values that turn sacred -- Sacred values and religious hatred -- Sacred values and uncertainty -- Notes -- Chapter 11 The power and control dimension -- The impetus to control -- Constraints as control -- Compensatory control -- Terror Management Theory -- From control to paranoia -- Control through clericalism -- Evolution of religious control -- Notes -- Part 4 Working through religious hatred -- Chapter 12 The search for answers -- Understanding religion -- Appreciating the emotional and unconscious -- Beyond dialogue
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Re-framing religious hatred as a psychospiritual problem
Subject Religious tolerance -- Psychological aspects
Religious discrimination -- Psychological aspects
Social conflict.
Social conflict.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000931730
1000931730