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could /lit/ recommand me a good book that analyses religion/spiritualism, believe and stuff like that (something from a more scientific/psychologic point of view

>> No.1120790

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins has several chapters on this subject.

>> No.1120795

Freud, Sigmund. Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse.

>> No.1120831

or The Hero of 1000 Faces. you know, not politically driven bullshit

>> No.1120833

>>1120790
Don't read this. You'd be better off hitting yourself in the face with the Bible.

>> No.1120855

>>1120833
>Don't read this.

Why not? What's your criticism?

>> No.1120856

How We Believe by Michael Shermer.

>> No.1120857

>>1120855
Dawkins is just another science-fag who's not willing to accept that Science is as much a religion or belief system as Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism or any other.

He takes science as fact and pushes it as much as his apparent opposing religious man and woman.

Just not a fan really...

>> No.1120902

>>1120768

the gospel according to jesus christ

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>>1120795

Jung on Religion is better.

>> No.1120923

look for works by Mircea Eliade, probably the best historian of religion

>> No.1120924

Do you have access to any scientific databases?
Sometimes it's best to skip the middleman, go to a database and chuck in some keywords, because a lot of studies have been published, much less done, on this topic.
If you don't you could still hit up Google Scholar.

>> No.1120926

>>1120914
>>1120795
Neither Jung nor Freund are contemporary or coherent enough for anything serious.

>> No.1120943

Joseph Campbell is a fun place to start here.

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Sam Harris - The End of Faith discusses spirituality quite seriously. Apparantly he got some aggro from atheists thinking he was defending pseudo-science when he was actually just addressing spiritual experience and meditation etc. The rest of the book is about religion more broadly and the effects on the brain that religious thinking has.

>> No.1120984

>>1120857

0/10

>> No.1120986

>>1120902

that'll be the day

>> No.1121029

The Naked Man, Desmond Morris

>> No.1121048

>>1120768
The Varieties of Religious Experience By William James