Becoming God's Children: Religion's Infantilizing Process
Ebook
M. D. Faber presents a meticulous, unremitting inquiry into the psychological direction from which Christianity derives its power to attract and hold its followers.
Becoming God's Children: Religion's Infantilizing Process was written, its author says, to alert readers to the role of infantilization in the Judeo-Christian tradition generally and in Christian rite and doctrine particularly. Because religion plays such an important role in so may lives, it is essential to understand the underlying appeal and significance of religious doctrines.
To that end, Becoming God's Children offers the reader an in-depth account of human neuropsychological development, while unearthing the Judeo-Christian tradition's explicitly infantilizing doctrines and rites. This compelling perspective on the nature and meaning of religious behavior explores issues such as: to what extent religious faith is grounded in the mnemonic recesses of the worshipper's brain, whether believers are predisposed by both genetic makeup and environmental prompting to adhere to their religious convictions, and why some individuals are powerfully drawn to religious faith while others reject it. A final chapter explores the implications of religion's infantilizing process vis-a-vis the role of reason and scientific thought in the contemporary world.
M. D. Faber presents a meticulous, unremitting inquiry into the psychological direction from which Christianity derives its power to attract and hold its followers.
Preface
Chapter One Introduction to the Issue of Infantilization
Chapter Two The Developmental Context: Psychology, Neurology, and Magic
Chapter Three
Part One The Infantilizing Process
Part Two Tracking the Parent-God: The Pastoral Metaphor
Chapter Four Growing Up: A Concluding Word
Index
… compelling new arguments in the favor of scientific thought are presented in this work appealing to those with an interest in psychology.
- Title: Becoming God's Children: Religion's Infantilizing Process
- Author: M. Faber
- Publisher: Praeger
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBN: 9798216052104
- Resource ID: LLS:9798216052104
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-12T11:26:52Z
M. D. Faber, PhD, is professor emeritus of English language and literature, specializing in literature and psychology, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.