Psychobiographies and Godly Visions: Disordered Minds and the Origins of Religiosity
暫譯: 心理傳記與神聖視野：失序心智與宗教性的起源

Kent, Stephen A.

Psychobiographies and Godly Visions: Disordered Minds and the Origins of Religiosity
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2025-08-07
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 271
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031984501
  • ISBN-13: 9783031984501
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This book argues that the religious visions and experiences of many religious founders were the result of mental health disorders or neurological conditions, thereby calling into question supernatural origins about the faiths that they developed. It constructs this argument by extensively utilizing psychiatric and other mental health and medical material that social scientists and religious studies scholars have underutilized in their analyses of religious experiences. Using a multi-disciplinary approach to examine psychobiographies of numerous major and minor religious figures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Ezekiel, Sabbatai Şevi, St. Paul, John Wesley, and Muhammad), along with leaders of many newer or alternative sects and cults (Rajneesh, Charles Manson, L. Ron Hubbard, David Berg, Marshall Applewhite, Jim Jones, Sun Myung Moon, and Elizabeth Clare Prophet). The book integrates material from religious studies, psychiatry and psychology, neurology, and the social sciences to address issues related to religions' origins. Its extensive bibliography makes it an indispensable resource for scholars of psychiatry and religion, new religious movements, and religious narcissism.

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本書主張，許多宗教創始人的宗教異象和經驗是由心理健康障礙或神經系統疾病所引起的，因此對他們所發展的信仰的超自然起源提出質疑。這一論點的構建廣泛利用了精神病學及其他心理健康和醫學資料，而這些資料在社會科學家和宗教研究學者對宗教經驗的分析中往往被低估。書中採用多學科的方法，檢視猶太教、基督教和伊斯蘭教中多位主要和次要宗教人物的心理傳記（如以西結、薩巴太·茲維、聖保羅、約翰·衛斯理和穆罕默德），以及許多較新或替代性教派和邪教的領袖（如拉吉尼什、查爾斯·曼森、L. Ron Hubbard、大衛·伯格、馬歇爾·阿普爾懷特、吉姆·瓊斯、文在寅和伊莉莎白·克萊爾·普羅菲特）。本書整合了宗教研究、精神病學和心理學、神經學以及社會科學的資料，以探討與宗教起源相關的議題。其廣泛的參考書目使其成為精神病學和宗教、新興宗教運動以及宗教自戀研究學者不可或缺的資源。

作者簡介

Stephen A. Kent (PhD--McMaster University) is an Emeritus Sociology Professor (and, formerly, an Adjunct Professor in the Religion program in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion) at the University of Alberta in Canada. He taught courses and published on alternative and sectarian religions. His articles have appeared in such diverse journals as the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Utah Law Review, Sociological Analysis, Mental Health, Religion, & Culture, Philosophy East and West, Aggression and Violent Behavior, The Canadian Journal of Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology, and The International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation. He has offered over thirty-five expert court testimonies and reports on alternative religions in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and has appeared in over 375 media presentations in fifteen countries. His 2001 book, From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era, was selected by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, as an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2002."

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

史蒂芬·A·肯特（Stephen A. Kent，博士—麥克馬斯特大學）是加拿大阿爾伯塔大學的名譽社會學教授（曾任歷史、古典學與宗教系宗教項目的兼任教授）。他教授有關替代宗教和教派宗教的課程並發表相關研究。他的文章發表在多個不同的期刊上，如《羅格斯法律與宗教期刊》（Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion）、《猶他法律評論》（Utah Law Review）、《社會學分析》（Sociological Analysis）、《心理健康、宗教與文化》（Mental Health, Religion, & Culture）、《東西方哲學》（Philosophy East and West）、《攻擊與暴力行為》（Aggression and Violent Behavior）、《加拿大社會學期刊》（The Canadian Journal of Sociology）、《英國社會學期刊》（The British Journal of Sociology）以及《國際強迫、虐待與操控期刊》（The International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation）。他在加拿大、愛爾蘭、英國和美國提供了超過三十五次的專家法庭證詞和報告，並在十五個國家出現了超過375次的媒體報導。他於2001年出版的書籍《從口號到咒語：越南戰爭末期的社會抗議與宗教轉變》（From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era）被《選擇：學術圖書館當前評論》（Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries）評選為2002年的「傑出學術著作」。

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