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

by Robert N. McCauley

A man with schizophrenia believes that God is instructing him through the public address system in a bus station. A nun falls into a decades-long depression because she believes that God refuses to answer her prayers. A neighborhood parishioner is bedeviled with anxiety because he believes that a certain religious ritual must be repeated, repeated, and repeated lest God punish him. To what extent are such manifestations of religious thinking analogous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190091142
• ISBN13: 9780190091149
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"