File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-feminism_1998/french-feminism.9806, message 13


Date: 	Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:00:29 -0400
From: ken <kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: new book


On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 10:15:00 -0400 Mark Logan and Kathleen 
O'Grady wrote:

> A new book I stumbled on that may interest some:  Religion, 
Society, and Psychoanalysis: Readings in Contemporary 
Theory.  Janet Liebman Jacobs and Donald Capps, eds.  
Westview Press, 1997.

This book was used for a course I TA'd for - Intro to 
Psychology of Religion.  I would recommend it as a good intro 
text.  One advantage of the book for students of religion (and 
teachers) is that it, because it is an anthology, has several 
different conceptualizations of religion.  Some are theological 
and others are more social theory oriented.  The chief 
weakness of the text reside in the two chapters on Lacan.  I 
found them just as 'difficult' as Lacan's writing itself (they 
seem to mirror the style uncritically) ... which is unfortunate 
because it most other respects the anthology is really 
innovative.  Diane Jonte-Pace wrote the chapter on Kristeva 
and notes that Kristeva's theory of religion is most clearly 
expressed in Powers of Horror, In the Beginning, and 
Strangers to Ourselves - which, Jonte-Pace argues is simply a 
rewriting of Freud's interpretive texts Totem and Taboo, The 
Future of an Illusion, and Civ and Its Dis.

ken




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