Religion, Narcissism and Fanaticism: The Arrogance of Gods - Paperback

by Tamas Pataki (Author)

Religion, Narcissism and Fanaticism traces the historical and psychosocial development of religiosity and applies anthropological and psychoanalytic perspectives to the understanding of religions, particularly their fanatical and fundamentalist expressions.

Author Biography

Tamas Pataki is Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Author of Against Religion, Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, and co-editor of Racism in Mind. He has also published journal articles and book chapters on the philosophy of mind and religion, most recently in The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy.