Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Religious Experience

Religious experience: perspectives and research paradigms

The subject of religious experience has been marginalised in the social sciences. Although authors such as James (1903) have suggested that religious experience is pre-cultural and pre-cognitive, this paper argues against the perennialist position, suggesting instead that religious experience and its narration are both socially constructed. The ideological role of religious experience is discus...

Psychoanalytic perspectives on racial profiling.

Jeffrey Goldberg's comments in "The Color of Suspicion"' are comprehensive, factual, and an indictment of the racist practice of profiling. I found it fascinating and revealing to read that racial profiling had its genesis in practices by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's behavioral science unit and the Drug Enforcement Administration's encouragement of state officials to profile drug couri...

Uncommon misery: modern psychoanalytic perspectives on infertility.

Religious perspectives on assisted suicide.

[Religious beliefs, illness and death: family's perspectives in illness experience].

The objectives of this study were to identify predominant themes in religion, illness and death in the life histories of families and examine the relationship between religion creeds, illness and death in the discourse of families that have an ill person. The theoretical framework used in this study was Symbolic Interactionism and the method was Oral History. Participants were seventeen familie...