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- Title
Religion and Death a Century Later.
- Authors
D'AGOSTINO, BRIAN; LEICHER, DOROTHEA
- Abstract
About a hundred years ago, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud penned influential writings on the nature of religion and how the religious imagination construes death. This article assesses the current relevance of their ideas in light of experimental psychology, neuroscience, and psychohistory research in recent decades. Topics include Terror Management Theory; the psychology of fundamentalism; Jungian archetypes as emergent outcomes of nature-nurture interaction; and the continued relevance of archetypes for understanding the psychology, history, and sociology of religion. We then subsume these disparate topics into a unified and evidence-based perspective on religion and death, and conclude with clinical and social implications.
- Subjects
FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; JUNG, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961; RELIGIOUS psychology; ARCHETYPE (Psychology); TERROR management theory; EXPERIMENTAL psychology; INDUSTRIAL psychology; SOCIAL impact
- Publication
Journal of Psychohistory, 2023, Vol 50, Issue 4, p283
- ISSN
0145-3378
- Publication type
Article