LEADER 03392nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910437962703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613923851 010 $a1-283-61140-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4614-4364-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000245836 035 $a(EBL)971604 035 $a(OCoLC)809202202 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000745914 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11930867 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000745914 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10859922 035 $a(PQKB)10774967 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4614-4364-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC971604 035 $a(PPN)168300001 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000245836 100 $a20120907d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe discovery of God $ea psychoevolutionary perspective /$fHenry Kellerman 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aNew York $cSpringer$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (110 p.) 225 0 $aSpringerBriefs in psychology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4614-4364-4 311 $a1-4614-4363-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- God and Important Anatomical Vestigal Structure -- God and Ontological Anxiety -- The personality of a God that can be possibly known -- God, Group, and Blame-Psychology -- God and Human Personality -- The Inconclusion. 330 $aThe debate between theist and atheist is an old one and has recently become a highly publicized one. There are some well known proponents of arguments on both sides. To provide a different perspective this book takes a psychoanalytically based evolutionary view, presenting an entirely original theoretical concept.  It introduces an epigenetic component to the discussion of God/no God within the context of evolutionary processes at the point where a thinking brain appears -- a cerebral cortex characteristic of homosapien. Therefore, it joins evolutionary phenomena with psychological realities for survival and safety, for empowerment and the absence of disempowerment. Research is cited to show that such instinctive survival behavior involves several prototypical behavioral categories relevant to all organisms from amoeba to man.             Freud, Darwin, Gould, and the major historical figures of the God/no God debate are included throughout, and the point is made that environmental conditions can produce biological effects and this is the essence of the proposed epigenetical context of the debate. Therefore, this volume concerns itself with exploring the question of whether there is a God-gene or whether God is discovered epigentically in a psycho/evolutionary context.  In either case, this book does not argue for the existence or non-existence of God. Rather, it introduces a new dimension to the debate ? a psycho/evolutionary one. . 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Psychology,$x2192-8363 606 $aGenetic psychology 606 $aGod 615 0$aGenetic psychology. 615 0$aGod. 676 $a155.7 700 $aKellerman$b Henry$0284598 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910437962703321 996 $aThe Discovery of God$92227741 997 $aUNINA