If Billy Sunday comes to town - delusion as a religious experience?
Subtitle: the biography of Anton T. Boisen from the perspective of foundational theology
By: Cor Arends
Contributors: Manley, Marcelle, translator
Series: Nijmegen studies in theology -- volume 4; Nijmegen studies in systematic theology -- Bd. 4.
Publisher: LIT Verlag GmbH & Co.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9783643904799
Subjects: Mental health clergy; Biography; Experience (Religion); Religious Psychology; Delusions; Foundationalism (Theory of knowledge); Clinical pastoral education (Movement); History; Geestelijke verzorging; Psychosen; Fundamentele theologie; Religiöser Wahn; Religiöse Erfahrung; Pastoralpsychologie; Fundamentaltheologie; Autobiografie
Description: This book explores how religious delusion can be acknowledged as a religious experience. In addition, the book presents a detailed case-study of the life of Presbyterian minister Anton T. Boisen (1876-1965), his crises and the religious delusion that brought him to the brink of the abyss after the trauma he experienced during World War I--Back cover.
Notes: "Translation into English from the Dutch original, Marcelle Manley"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259).
Table of contents: title: Foundational theology; title: A theological reading guide to psychotic texts; title: Anton Boisen, a constrained life; title: Interpretations of the 1920 crisis and psychosis; title: Religious sources; title: Delusional religious experience.