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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Klassen, Michael L. Bad religion. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2007 (OCoLC)891562794 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael L Klassen |
| ISBN: | 9780761835615 076183561X |
| OCLC Number: | 123956432 |
| Description: | vii, 64 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction : religion and the spoiled identity -- Origins -- The human experience of the divine -- The experience of wrongness -- The experience of deliverance -- "More" -- Conversion -- Sudden conversion and the subconscious -- Types -- Fakes, flakes, and emotional high stakes -- Frauds -- Flakes -- Zealots -- Recruits -- Interpreting the holy writ -- God of the gap -- Rightness vs. compatibility -- Stages -- Religious development and the practice of bad religion -- Make-believe reasoning -- Sex and violence -- Imitation -- Stage one religion -- The "believer-clone" -- What stage one religious groups do to attract believer-clones -- The rocky transition to stage two religion -- Stage two believers -- The stage two religious rebel -- Stage two believers and the games they play -- Group conformity -- The non-conformist -- "Hope" and the stage two zealot -- Stage two zealots who practice good religion -- Traits -- Good religion -- "What should Heinz do?" -- The seven traits of good religion. |
| Responsibility: | Michael L. Klassen. |
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