Religious hatred and human conflict: psychodynamic approaches to insight and intervention

Religious Hatred and Human Conflict focuses the lens of psychodynamic psychology on a phenomenon that often confounds conventional thinking – the intensity of conflict with religious or quasi-religious dimensions.The book highlights six dimensions of religion: identity, doctrine and practice, emotio...

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1. Verfasser: Acland, Andrew Floyer ca. 20. Jh (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2024]
Ausgabe:First published 2024
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Zusammenfassung:Religious Hatred and Human Conflict focuses the lens of psychodynamic psychology on a phenomenon that often confounds conventional thinking – the intensity of conflict with religious or quasi-religious dimensions.The book highlights six dimensions of religion: identity, doctrine and practice, emotion and experience, mythology, sacred values and power and control, exploring how these can give rise to religious hatred and lead to marginalisation, persecution and even genocide. It also explores reasons for the evolution of religion and religious hatred, and their relationship with human behaviour through contemporary issues such as fundamentalism, martyrdom, clerical narcissism and apocalyptic belief. Acland examines how religious hatred and conflict may be transcended by facilitating processes of dialogue and diapraxis which enable a systematic understanding of prejudices and projections. Last, it offers practical methods and strategies for helping individuals and communities grow beyond the constraints of religious hatred, treating religious hatred as a psycho-spiritual problem that requires self-understanding.Identifying the implications for professionals in conflict resolution and mediation, politicians, community leaders, diplomats and anyone working to prevent or reduce conflict where religious belief is a factor, this book sets out how those tasked with intervening can respond to the challenges involved. It will also be highly relevant reading for students and researchers of psychology and religious studies
Beschreibung:PART 1: Contexts and cultures; Chapter 1: Beginning, background and biases; 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; 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; Chapter 4: Psychodynamic approaches to religious hatred; Complexes; Complexes and religious traditions; Cultural complexes; The Shadow; Complexes and Shadows in transmission; PART 3: Religious hatred and the dimensions of religion ; Chapter 5: Six dimensions of religion; Dimensions of religion; The dimensions of religion,
Beschreibung:x, 199 Seiten
ISBN:9781032500508
9781032529004