The Fundamentalist Mind: How Polarized Thinking Imperils Us All

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Quest Books, 1 janv. 2007 - 272 pages
We are all fundamentalists whether we acknowledge it or not. We were born into a world of myth and metaphor and have come to internalize the stories we were told as children as the literal interpretations of much greater and deeply symbolic lessons. When we fall into such patterns, according to author and psychotherapist Stephen Larsen, we lose all flexibility and freedom of thought. We become split by dualistic thinking—bad versus good; black versus white—and are weighted down by definitive, concretistic principles and behaviors that alienate us from one another. Dr. Larsen explains that we can avoid such pitfalls by identifying our “inner fundamentalist” and becoming more open-minded individuals.
 

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List of Illustrations
12
The Phantom Rulers of Humanity 1
27
The Neurobiology of Belief 21
49
Fragments of the Gods
77
Dualism and Millennialism in Christianity
97
The Roots of Islamic Fundamentalism
127
Secular Fundamentalism
141
The FiveMinute Fundamentalist
163
Natural Religion
189
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Stephen Larsen is Professor Emeritus of psychology, SUNY, Ulster.

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