God Behind the Screen

<p>This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. <em>God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy </em>identifies and rigorously examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres, written by authors such as Aldous Huxley, Jane Austin, Sinclair Lewis, and Steven King, who are both fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath the umbrella of psychopathy.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p></p><p>PART I</p><p></p><p>1 The Levels of Personality – <i>Corpus et Animam</i></p><p>2 Generally on Religion</p><p>PART II</p><p></p><p>3 The Constant Seeker:<i> </i>Larry Darrell<i> </i>and Mature Religiosity</p><p>4 The Slow-Witted Mystic: Mrs. Dempster<i> </i>and Fool-Saintly Religiosity</p><p></p><p>PART III</p><p></p><p>5 Hustling Man of the Cloth:<i> </i>Elmer Gantry and Narcissistic Religiosity</p><p>6 A Demon Next to an Angel: Father Joseph and Masochistic Religiosity</p><p>7 Preacher of the Poisonwood Bible: Nathan Price and Antisocial Religiosity</p><p>8 The Flamboyant Depressive: Mrs. Winterson and Paranoid Religiosity</p><p>9 Case Studies of Minor Characters</p><p></p><p>Bibliography</p>