Death Anxiety and Religious Belief: An Existential Psychology of Religion by Jonathan Jong, Jamin Halberstadt

Death Anxiety and Religious Belief: An Existential Psychology of Religion Jonathan Jong, Jamin Halberstadt ebook
ISBN: 9781472571625
Page: 240
Format: pdf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Despite the evidence that belief in afterlife has positive implications for psychosocial . Write, “religious worldviews provide a uniquely powerful form of existential se- curity. Third,religious belief should effectively protect individuals from death anxiety and its effects. Becker's The Birth and Death of Meaning (1962), for example, represents a classic psychology in which human beings suffer from a primary death anxiety that is, Becker offers an existential psychoanalytic apology for religion as the least . Wong (Eds.), Existential and spiritual issues in death attitudes ( pp. By Jonathan Jong in Religion and Psychology of Religion. Journal of Psychology and Theology. Do religious beliefs actually provide comfort against the inevitability of death? The relationship of religious variables to death depression and death anxiety. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Vol 6(4), Nov 2014, 316-329. Death anxiety, and other facets of an existential faith .. Acceptance, and escape acceptance), death anxiety, life satisfaction and AllReligions offer a framework to cope with death related concerns. Es existentially comforting religious beliefs while low.