Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from The Perspective of Jungian Psychology

by Vladislav Šolc

General conditions include: 1) Hubris 2) Ethical Infantilism 3) Unconscious Identity (participation mystique) 4) Lack of Aidos 5) Relinquishment of Will 6) Inadequate Relationship to Paradox 7) Identification with the Self 8) Inferiority of Consciousness The second group of characteristics is concerned more with the cognitive processes and the approaches to religious products (texts and teachings). These attributes can be described as cognitive characteristics, which include: 1) Concretism and naive literalism 2) Historicism and externalism 3) Selective rationality 4) Inconsistency and intellectual rigidity 5) Quasi-intellectualism 6) Absolutism and inerrancy 7) Moral superiority and moral Manichaeism 8) Millennialism and messianism 9) Dogmatism The third group of characteristics refers to

Lack of shame, modesty, humility.