• A religious delusion is defined as a delusion, or fixed belief not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence, involving religious themes or...
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  • in love with them. Religious delusion: Belief that the affected person is a god or chosen to act as a god. Somatic delusion: Delusion whose content pertains...
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    omnipotent, wealthy, or otherwise very powerful. Grandiose delusions often have a religious, science fictional, or supernatural theme. Examples include...
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    Messiah complex (category Delusions)
    category of religious delusion, which pertains to strong fixed beliefs that cause distress or disability. It is the type of religious delusion that is classified...
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  • The God Delusion is a 2006 book by British evolutionary biologist and ethologist Richard Dawkins. In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural...
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  • hallucinations and delusions. These symptoms may resemble the events found within a religious experience. However, the people who report these religious visual and...
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  • A Truman Show delusion, also known as Truman syndrome or Truman disorder, is a type of delusion in which the person believes that their life is a staged...
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    Delusional disorder, traditionally synonymous with paranoia, is a mental illness in which a person has delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations...
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    Poznań, Poland authored a study in which, based on his own history of religious delusion of mission and overvalued ideas and information communicated in the...
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  • September 12, 2017. Books portal Folie à deux Religion and schizophrenia Religious delusion Milton Rokeach (19 April 2011). The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. NYRB...
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    software portal Creativity and mental health Religion and schizophrenia Religious delusion Notes Davis later wrote that he found work at "a company named Xytec...
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  • Persecutory Delusions Delusions of Jealousy Delusions of Sin or Guilt Grandiose Delusions Religious Delusions Somatic Delusions Ideas and Delusions of Reference...
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    Religion (redirect from Religious)
    Dawkins, Richard (2006). The God Delusion. Bantam Books. Eller, Jack David (2010). Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence Across Culture and History...
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  • logical manner. Those with schizophrenia commonly report some type of religious delusion, and religion itself may be a trigger for schizophrenia. Controversy...
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    Jerusalem syndrome (category Delusions)
    claimants Messiah complex Paris syndrome Religion and schizophrenia Religious delusion Stendhal syndrome Bar-el Y, Durst R, Katz G, Zislin J, Strauss Z,...
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    for religious hallucinations, with and 61.7% of people having experienced any delusion and 75.9% of those having experienced a religious delusion found...
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  • Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions is a 2008 book by David Berlinski. It discusses atheism and religion, defending the religious point...
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    False prophet (category Religious belief and doctrine)
    Millennialism Prophets of Christianity Religious delusion True-believer syndrome Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions Rowland, Christopher (2010)...
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  • List of people claimed to be Jesus (category Lists of religious figures)
    considered deities Messiah Messiah complex Messianism Religious delusion Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions Notability is established with a Wikipedia...
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  • The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine is a book by the theologian Alister McGrath and the psychologist Joanna Collicutt...
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    Publishing, p.9. Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine, Society for Promoting...
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    Richard Dawkins (category Critics of new religious movements)
    published The God Delusion, writing that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion. He founded the Richard...
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    condition where people mutilate their genitals as a result of psychotic religious delusions. For example, in one case a person is reported to have mutilated...
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  • America", in The God Delusion. Black Swan. (ISBN 978-0-552-77429-1). De La Torre, Miguel A. (2009). Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Culture. 2-volume...
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  • Thought broadcasting (category Delusional disorders)
    Thought broadcasting is a type of delusional condition in which the affected person believes that others can hear their inner thoughts, despite a clear...
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  • ALC Historical Perspective: Nervig, Casper B. Christian Truth and Religious Delusions, Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1941. Arand, Charles P,...
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  • patients with delusional disorders which do not paralyse them, but who may have fixed bizarre delusions. In some cases, religious delusion might accompany...
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    Kurzweil believed the Canaanites replaced logos with mythos, producing a religious delusion: Since it itself neglects the historical continuity of its people...
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    whereas those left out of the Will, led by Ann's nephew, recounted her religious delusions. It was during this case that the unmarried situation of Ann Thwaytes's...
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    The Root of All Evil?, later retitled The God Delusion, is a television documentary written and presented by Richard Dawkins in which he argues that humanity...
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