A01=M. D. Faber
Author_M. D. Faber
Baptism
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Dependence on God
Dictates of Biology
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Eucharist
Future of Religion
God as a Causative Agency
God as a Supernatural Parent
God's Love for Mankind
Holy Spirit
Infantilization in the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Magic and Religion
Memory in Religious Faith
Metaphor of the Vine
Metaphorical Significance of the Fall
Neuropsychology and the Origins of Religion
Obedience in the Infantilizing Process
Old Testament Psalms
Origin and Nature of Religious Devotion
Pastoral Metaphor
Prayer
Relationship of the Cultic and the Religious
Product details
- ISBN 9780313382260
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, PhD, is professor emeritus of English language and literature, specializing in literature and psychology, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
