Religion and Critical Psychology: Religious Experience in the Knowledge Economy

by Carrette; Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780415423069
• ISBN10: 0415423066
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-12-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Jeremy Carrette argues that the psychology of religion is no longer sustainable without a social critique, and that as William James predicted, the project of the modernist psychology of religion has failed. Controversially he champions greater social and philosophical analysis within the field to challenge the political naivety and disciplinary illusions of the traditional approaches to psychology of religion. Carrette discusses the relevance of the social and economic factors surrounding the debates of psychology and religion, through three critical examples: psychoanalysis humanistic psychology cognitive neuroscience. A Critical Psychology of Religion provides a new dimension to the debates surrounding religious experience. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of critical psychology, religious experience and the psychology of religion and extends aninterdisciplinary challenge to the separation of psychology, sociology, politics, economics and religion.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the politics of religious experience	p. 1
The ethics of knowledge in the human sciences	p. 31
The ethical veil of the knowledge economy	p. 33
Binary knowledge and the protected category	p. 70
Economic formations of psychology and religion	p. 101
Religion, politics and psychoanalysis	p. 103
Maslow's economy of religious experience	p. 138
Cognitive capital and the codification of religion	p. 163
Conclusion: critique and the ethics of not-knowing	p. 204
Notes	p. 214
Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 245
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