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Bad religion : the psychology of religious misbehavior

Author: Michael L Klassen
Publisher: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Bad Religion suggests that there are two classifications of religious people in the world: those that better the world through their faith, and those that cause harm and suffering through their  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Klassen, Michael L.
Bad religion.
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2007
(OCoLC)891562794
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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