Slaves to Faith: A Therapist Looks Inside the Fundamentalist Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (984 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0313364966 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 229 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Insightful! This book delves deep into the psyche and motivations of religious fundamentalists, while also offering practical advice in how to best relate to and communicate with them. It helped me better understand my fundamentalist friends and acquaintances. Highly recommended.. "important book" according to Brad Bartlett. Coming from this background, this book has helped me develop a framework for how fundamentalist ideas have impacted the way I relate to the world.. "Very insightful look at an interesting phenomenon." according to Web Puddin. The author is able to bring multiple perspectives to this phenomenon: from the perspective of a former fundamentalist, a college religion professor, a therapist, and an academic researcher. He does a brief analysis of fundamentalism in general as it applies to all religions and shows how it is a similar construct regardless of the particular religion. Then he focuses mostly on fundamentalism in the US, particularly the Bible Belt (his origins).
It is a controversial thing to say about Christian fundamentalism, a thesis that has already proved contentious in the author's public appearances, and one that is sure to generate considerable attention and passionate debate as the U.S. In other words, the structure of the fundamentalist worldview, and the psychology beneath it, is pretty much the same across religions. populace continues to divide into opposing camps.. As a result, the fundamentalist completely rejects modernity while battling mightily in the arena of national politics and culture to bring about a world that aligns more closely with the fundamentalist worldview.Focusing on Christian fundamentalists, the author puts Christian fundamentalism in its historical and theological contexts. At the same time, Mercer calls upon cognitive theory to explain that the fundamentalist's life story is not particular to Christianity or any other
We want to stay, find out more, and enter in dialogue." - PsycCRITIQUES . Mercer invites us into this room in ways that are engaging and intriguing. Peter's injunction and tiptoe past this room, leaving such believers to make sense of the world and deal with their anxieties in their own ways. This book will be more useful to those in a teaching rather than a clinical context for several reasons. Particular topics include the fundamentalist view of the Bible and problems with it, the Rapture, left-behind theology, the threat from rapid cultural change, and talking theol
Mercer has worked with fundamentalist Christians in the classroom as a professor of biblical studies and in the consulting room as the go-to therapist for fundamentalist Christians in his city. Calvin Mercer is professor and codirector of the Religious Studies Program at East Carolina University. He has published numerous articles in both religion and psychology journals and has presented a number of papers at the American A