TY - BOOK ID - 67866554 TI - Resisting history : religious transcendence and the invention of the unconscious PY - 2007 SN - 9780719074141 9781781700778 178170077X 9781847791467 1847791468 0719074142 1847796591 PB - Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed by Palgrave, DB - UniCat KW - Mysticism KW - Psychology and religion. KW - Psychology KW - History. KW - history. KW - Religion and psychology KW - Religion KW - Christology. KW - cause and effect. KW - demonic possession. KW - hauntings. KW - inexplicable. KW - miraculous events. KW - mystics. KW - psychological theories. KW - supernatural. KW - visions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67866554 AB - How can historians make sense of visions, hauntings and demonic possession? Do miraculous events have any place in a world governed by cause and effect? In Resisting history, Rhodri Hayward examines the cumulative attempts of theologians, historians and psychologists to create a consistent and rational narrative capable of containing the inexplicable. This lucid and provocative account argues that the psychological theories we routinely use to make sense of supernatural experience were born out of struggles between popular mystics and conservative authorities. Hayward's lively analysis of the ER -