{"product_id":"religion-narcissism-and-fanaticism-tamas-pataki-9781032724942","title":"Religion, Narcissism and Fanaticism: The Arrogance of Gods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReligion, Narcissism and Fanaticism\u003c\/i\u003e traces the historical and psychosocial development of religiosity and applies anthropological and psychoanalytic perspectives to the understanding of religions, particularly their fanatical and fundamentalist expressions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligious ideology, practices and institutions satisfy many human needs, including those arising from our hysterical, obsessional, and narcissistic dispositions: the need to segregate the good and bad aspects of our personalities; to belong to an idealized group; and to feel secure and special by identifying with, or living in the orbit of, a supposedly omnipotent figure. But these needs and their modes of satisfaction are distorted by religions which may then nurture and accommodate malign characteristics, especially in the case of the monotheisms, narcissistic inflation or grandiosity. The book shows how interactions between religious ideology and personal development become intricated in the narcissistic pathology which underlies much of the violence and religious aggression in the world today. It presents both a new account of the historical and psychosocial development of religiosity and a powerful polemic against the religions which delusorily satisfy some of the very needs they create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will appeal to psychoanalysts, anthropologists, philosophers, sociologists, and all those interested in the place of religion in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tamas Pataki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032724943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032724942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d","brand":"Tamas Pataki","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45265214210303,"sku":"9781032724942","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2caa832c-f083-495f-9833-f32683fcbb75.jpg?v=1713420481","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/religion-narcissism-and-fanaticism-tamas-pataki-9781032724942","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}