Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Religion and Violence a Psychoanalytical Inquiry
Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Marsha Aileen Hewitt [+]
Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto
HEWITT AILEEN MARSHA is Professor of Ethics and
Contemporary Theology in the Faculty of Divinity, and cross-appointed
to the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
She also teaches in the Arts Faculty, where she is the co-ordinator of
Ethics, Society and the Law, a Trinity College undergraduate Arts
programme. Professor Hewitt is the author of several articles and books
in the areas of ethics, critical social theory, feminism and liberation
theology. She is also a practising psychoanalyst.
Description
Marsha Hewitt considers psychoanalytical explanations of the mental states present in enactments of religious violence.