Popular Religion in Ancient Israel

Segal, J. B.

doi:10.18647/767/jjs-1976

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“…The only "sacrifice" permitted is the circumcision of the son by the father eight days after birth. This partial sacrifice ends the seven-day period of impurity caused by the shedding of blood in delivery (Segal, 1976). The circumcision signifies participation in the lineage of Abraham.…”

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Psychological perspectives on infanticide in a faith healing sect.

Hughes

1990

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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This article examines members of anIndiana-based faith healing sect that rejects the use of medicine. As a result of beliefs, the sect has precipitated excessively high perinatal and maternal death rates. The founder of the sect and his doctrines of faith healing are described and analyzed psychologically, as are three families whose infants died from practicing the the founder's methods. Conditions causing infanticide in a religious community are interpreted in light of Judeo-Christian monotheism. Theoretical implications for psychology of religion and psychotherapy are discussed.

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“…On the other hand, it expresses anger against death, the mythological images of the demonic, and the archetype of the Devil. As a symbolic form, it reenacts the function of the relic which, in the Semitic and Arabic traditions, has the power to restore the dead to life (Segal, 1976).…”

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Psychological perspectives on infanticide in a faith healing sect.

Hughes

1990

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion

Maiden¹

2020

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This book is about minds and religionancient Israelite minds and religion, to be more precise. In the past thirty years or so, a wave of research in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) has yielded deep insights into the cognitive foundations of religious belief and behavior. 1 This body of research suggests that religion is not sui generis, but is instead rooted in ordinary features of human cognitive architecture. That is, religion tends to rely upon evolved cognitive mechanisms and, as a result, emerges as an outgrowth of the way human minds operate in general. 2 In this sense, religion is therefore "natural." 3 This book extends these insights by employing current cognitive approaches in order to explore expressions of religious thought and behavior in ancient Iron Age Israel. Although scholarship on Israelite religion has become increasingly interdisciplinary in recent yearsinsofar as it makes use of both textual and archaeological data, as well as various social science methodologiescognitive tools have

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Intuitive and Reflective Cognition, Optimal and Costly Religion

2020

Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion

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Popular Religion in Ancient Israel

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Psychological perspectives on infanticide in a faith healing sect.

Psychological perspectives on infanticide in a faith healing sect.

Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion

Intuitive and Reflective Cognition, Optimal and Costly Religion

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