Authenticity of Faith The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience

Name: Authenticity of Faith The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience
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ISBN: 9780891123507

ISBN-10: 0891123504

ISBN-13: 9780891123507

Edition: 2012

Authors: Richard Beck

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Is faith simply a form of wishful thinking? Is belief in God merely a consoling illusion? So argued Sigmund Freud in The Future of an Illusion. And the force of Freud's argument continues to be felt as it features prominently among critics of religion such as the New Atheists. But was Freud right? Until now, few have directly examined the plausibility of Freud's argument. But here, in a groundbreaking analysis inspired by the religious types described by William James in his seminal The Varieties of Religious Experience, Richard Beck explores the motivational dynamics among "summer Christians" and "winter Christians." Further, across a variety of laboratory studies, Beck examines how…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.078
Language: English