Overview
Swiss psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961) has made a major, though still contested, impact on the field of religious studies. Alternately revered and reviled, the subject of adoring memoirs and scathing exposes, Jung and his ideas have had at least as much influence on religious studies as have the psychoanalytic theories of his mentor, Sigmund Freud. Teaching Jung offers a collection of original articles presenting several different approaches to Jung's psychology in relation to religion, theology, and contemporary culture. The contributors describe their teaching of Jung in different academic contexts, with special attention to the pedagogical and theoretical challenges that arise in the classroom.Many of Jung's key psychological terms (archetypes, collective unconscious, individuation, projection, synchronicity, extroversion and introversion) have become standard features of religious studies discourse, and his extensive commentaries on various religious traditions make it clear that Jung's psychology is, at one level, a significant contribution to the study of human religiosity. His characterization of depth psychology as a fundamentally religious response to the secularizing power of modernity has left a lasting imprint on the relationship between religious studies and the psychological sciences.
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Author: Kelly Bulkeley (Visiting Scholar, Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theological Union) ,
Clodagh Weldon (Associate Professor of Theology; Chair of Theology and Pastoral Ministry, Associate Professor of Theology; Chair of Theology and Pastoral Ministry, Dominican University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.635kg
ISBN: 9780199735426
ISBN 10: 0199735425
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 13 October 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<br> Jung remains an important figure in the humanistic study of religion because he stood for a number of key insights-about the limits of rationalism, about the universality of the human psyche, about the reality of the paranormal, and about the necessity and dangers of religion-that remain as potent now as when he first articulated them. Teaching Jung admirably explores this promise and this scandal through the prisms of pedagogy and classroom practice. --Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred<br><p><br> As teachers, clinicians, and scholars, the authors have thought deeply about Jung's life and work. Both the beginning student and the advanced reader will find here new perspectives and thought-provoking commentary on Jung, as well as pedagogical pointers from a wide range of classroom settings. While ostensibly focusing on Religious Studies, anyone reflecting on human experience will benefit from this volume. --James W. Jones, Distin
Jung remains an important figure in the humanistic study of religion because he stood for a number of key insights-about the limits of rationalism, about the universality of the human psyche, about the reality of the paranormal, and about the necessity and dangers of religion-that remain as potent now as when he first articulated them. Teaching Jung admirably explores this promise and this scandal through the prisms of pedagogy and classroom practice. * Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred *
Author Information
Kelly Bulkeley is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union. Clodagh Weldon is Associate Professor of Theology at Dominican University.
