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Seeing God in Our Birth Experiences

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There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to seek the supernatural and the divine comes from. This book adds a new and innovative perspective to this line of thought by being the first to link prenatal and perinatal experiences to the origins of these unconscious underpinnings of our shared images of God. The book poses a ground-breaking paradigm by thinking about our earliest images of God, whether theist or atheist, within a psychoanalytic framework, comparing and contrasting the thought of Freud and Rizzuto. It looks at the issue of images of God from a diversity of psychological perspectives including, attachment theory, developmental theory and bio-psychosocial perspectives. This analysis leads to the conclusion that in parallel to postnatal findings, uterine and birth experiences can predispose individuals to form God representations later in life, through underpinning affective and environmental factors. This is a bold study of the development of one of humanity’s most fundamental aspects. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of the psychology of religion, psychology, psychoanalysis, religious studies and early infant development.

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ISBN: 9780367517557
Publication date: 29th April 2022
Author: Helen Kings College London, UK Holmes
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 232 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
Genres: Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Religion: general