宗教の起源と精神病
Psychobiographies and Godly Visions
Disordered Minds and the Origins of Religiosity
Kent, Stephen A.
- 出版社:Palgrave Macmillan
- 出版年月:2025年 09月
- ISBN:9783031984501
- 装丁:HRD
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- 言語:ENG
- 巻数・ページ数:292 p.
- 分類: 宗教学一般 , 知覚・認知・神経・意識
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This book argues that the religious visions and experiences of many religious founders were the result of mental health disorders or neurological conditions, thereby calling into question supernatural origins about the faiths that they developed. Using a multi-disciplinary approach to examine psychobiographies of numerous major and minor religious figures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Ezekiel, Sabbatai Şevi, St. Paul, John Wesley, and Muhammad), along with leaders of many newer or alternative sects and cults (Rajneesh, Charles Manson, L. Ron Hubbard, David Berg, Marshall Applewhite, Jim Jones, Sun Myung Moon, and Elizabeth Clare Prophet).