#new by Mick Power: Adieu to God, why psychology leads to atheism
Adieu to God examines atheism from a psychological perspective and reveals how religious phenomena and beliefs are psychological rather than supernatural in origin. #more
Answers the psychological question of why, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, do religions continue to prosper?
Looks at atheism and religion using a fair and balanced approach based on the latest work in psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychiatry and medicine
Acknowledges the many psychological benefits of religion while still questioning the validity of its supernatural belief systems and providing atheist alternatives to a fulfilling life
Dawkins and Dennett taught us that there’s no room for God in biology. Stenger and Hawking taught us that there’s no room for God in cosmology either. Now Mick Power pushes God out of his last safe haven: the human mind. Power has written a great little book, showing that psychology is just as much of a threat to religious belief as evolutionary theory and cosmology. Fundamentalists are going to lose a lot of sleep over this one!
—Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams, Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University, UK
“In Adieu to God, Mick Power gives a powerful and humane account of the case for atheism from an under-explored angle.”
—Andrew Copson, Chief Executive, British Humanist Association, UK
Mick Power is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, as well as a practicing Clinical Psychologist who has worked at Guy's Hospital and Maudsley and Bethlem Hospitals. Raised as a Catholic, Power became an atheist at 16.
Mick Power - Adieu to God
€ 22.95 | paperback | 190 pages
