Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach Us about Religions

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Preface and Acknowledgments

  1. God Naturally, Disorder Actually: Ecumenical Naturalism and Religious Cognition
  2. Voice of God, Sound of Self: Sources of Religious Experience and Symptoms of Illness
  3. Praying in the Dark: Depression and Divine Abandonment
  4. Scrupulosity, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Ritual
  5. Searching for the Gods’ Minds the Hard Way
  6. Ecumenical Naturalism: Presuppositions, Principles, and Prospects

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Index