LEADER 04628nam 22004455 450 001 9911018747003321 005 20250806171814.0 010 $a9783031984518$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031984501 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-98451-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32257001 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32257001 035 $a(CKB)40150658400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-98451-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940150658400041 100 $a20250806d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPsychobiographies and Godly Visions $eDisordered Minds and the Origins of Religiosity /$fby Stephen A. Kent 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (417 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Kent, Stephen A. Psychobiographies and Godly Visions Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9783031984501 327 $aChapter 1. Mental Health and Mental Illness: Narcissism, Histrionic Personality Disorder, and the Debate over Psychopathy, Sociopathy, and Anti-Social Personality Disorder -- Chapter 2. Brainwashing, Bipolar Disorder, Delusions, Hallucinations, and Schizophrenia -- Chapter 3: Trauma-Coerced Attachment and Religiously Directed Corporal Punishment -- Chapter 4: A Neurological Disorder Often with Religious Manifestations: Epilepsy -- Chapter 5: The Historical Debate about Muhammad and Epilepsy -- Chapter 6: The Epileptic Muhammad: A Reexamination Based Upon the Qur?an, Hadiths, and Recent Medical Research -- Chapter 7: Sociology and Religious Studies on Disordered Minds and the Origins of Godly Visions -- Chapter 8: Mental Disorders, Neurological Illness, and Psychobiographies about Religions? Creators. 330 $aThis book argues that the religious visions and experiences of many religious founders were the result of mental health disorders or neurological conditions, thereby calling into question supernatural origins about the faiths that they developed. It constructs this argument by extensively utilizing psychiatric and other mental health and medical material that social scientists and religious studies scholars have underutilized in their analyses of religious experiences. Using a multi-disciplinary approach to examine psychobiographies of numerous major and minor religious figures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Ezekiel, Sabbatai ?evi, St. Paul, John Wesley, and Muhammad), along with leaders of many newer or alternative sects and cults (Rajneesh, Charles Manson, L. Ron Hubbard, David Berg, Marshall Applewhite, Jim Jones, Sun Myung Moon, and Elizabeth Clare Prophet). The book integrates material from religious studies, psychiatry and psychology, neurology, and the social sciences to address issues related to religions? origins. Its extensive bibliography makes it an indispensable resource for scholars of psychiatry and religion, new religious movements, and religious narcissism. Stephen A. Kent (PhD?McMaster University) is an Emeritus Sociology Professor (and, formerly, an Adjunct Professor in the Religion program in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion) at the University of Alberta in Canada. He taught courses and published on alternative and sectarian religions. His articles have appeared in such diverse journals as the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Utah Law Review, Sociological Analysis, Mental Health, Religion, & Culture, Philosophy East and West, Aggression and Violent Behavior, The Canadian Journal of Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology, and The International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation. He has offered over thirty-five expert court testimonies and reports on alternative religions in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and has appeared in over 375 media presentations in fifteen countries. His 2001 book, From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era, was selected by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, as an ?Outstanding Academic Title for 2002.?. 606 $aPsychology and religion 606 $aPsychology of Religion and Spirituality 615 0$aPsychology and religion. 615 14$aPsychology of Religion and Spirituality. 676 $a201.615 700 $aKent$b Stephen A$01836644 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9911018747003321 996 $aPsychobiographies and Godly Visions$94414841 997 $aUNINA