Articles and Chapters

2011. Cultivating Visions through Exegetical Meditations. In Daphna V. Arbel &
         Andrei A. Orlov (Eds.), With Letters of Light [Otiot Shel Or]: Studies in
         the Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Jewish Apocalypticism, Magic, and Mysticism in Honor
         of Rachel Elior
(pp. 63-91). Berlin & New York: Walter de Guyter.

2011. The Deletion of Will from Freud’s Theorizing. In J. Harold Ellens (Ed.),
         Explaining Evil, Volume 2: History, Global Views, and Events (pp. 292-318).
         Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

2011. The Doubling of Conscience in Groups. In J. Harold Ellens (Ed.),
         Explaining Evil, Volume 3: Approaches, Responses, Solutions
         (pp. 16-40). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

2010. Biblical Terrorism. In Dereck Daschke & Andrew Kille (Eds.), A Cry
         Instead of Justice: The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological
         Perspective
(pp. 55-79). New York & London: T & T. Clark.

2009. Interpreting the Sense of Badness. Psychoanalytic Review 96(6):943-982.

2009. Meditation. Britannica Online Encyclopedia. http://www.britannica.com

2009. Mysticism. Britannica Online Encyclopedia. http://www.britannica.com

2009. Psychoanalytic Contributions on the Mystical. In Jacob A. Belzen (Ed.). Changing
         the Scientific Study of Religion: Beyond Freud? Theoretical, empirical, and clinical studies
         from psychoanalytic perspectives
, pp.111-140. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

2009. Psychology of Religion. In John R. Hinnells (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to the
         Study of Religion
, 2nd ed., pp. 186-202. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

2009. The Transference onto God. International Journal for Applied Psychoanalytic Studies
         6/2:146-62.

2008. Revelation and the Practice of Prophecy: With Special Reference to Rabbi
         Nachman of Breslov. In J. Harold Ellens (Ed.), Miracles: God, Science, and
         Psychology in the Paranormal, Volume 3: Parapsychological Perspectives
,
         pp. 252-300. Westport, CT & London: Praeger Publishers.

2007. A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychedelic Psychotherapy. In Michael J. Winkelman
         & Thomas B. Roberts (Eds.). (2007), Psychedelic Medicine: New Evidence for
         Hallucinogenic Substances as Treatments
, Volume 2, pp. 195-211. Westport, CT &
         London: Praeger Publishers.

2006. Interpreting Numinous Experiences. Social Analysis 50(2):204-223. Also reprinted
         in Jadran Mimica (Ed.). Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography pp. 204-223.
         New York & Oxford: Berghan Books, 2007.

2005. Psychology of Religion. In: John R. Hinnells (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to the
         Study of Religion.
London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, pp. 164-81.

2004. Psychotherapeutic Change in the Book of Job. In Psychology and the Bible: A New Way
         to Read the Scriptures, Volume Two: From Genesis to Apocalyptic.
Eds. J. Harold
         Ellens & Wayne G. Rollins. New York: Greenwood-Praeger Publishers, pp. 119-39.

2004. Reading the Prophecies of Jeremiah through a Psychoanalytic Lens. In Psychology and
         the Bible: A New Way to Read the Scriptures, Volume Two: From Genesis to Apocalyptic.

         Eds. J. Harold Ellens & Wayne G. Rollins. New York: Greenwood-Praeger Publishers,
         pp. 141-83. A revised version of "The Prophecies of Jeremiah" (1985).

2002. More on Methodology in Alchemy. Theosophical History 8(10):270-72.

2002. Spiritual Alchemy in King Lear. Theosophical History 8(10):274-89.

2002. The Ojibwa Vision Quest. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 4(2):149-70.

2002. Mysticism. In: Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes (Eds.). International Encyclopedia
         of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Oxford, UK: Pergamon, pp. 10270-10273.

2001. "Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism": A Collage of Working Definitions. Ed. April
         D. DeConick. In: Society of Biblical Literature 2001 Seminar Papers. Atlanta, GA:
         Society of Biblical Literature, 2001, pp. 292-93.

2001. Manna, the Showbread, and the Eucharist: Psychoactive Sacraments in the Bible. In:
         Thomas B. Roberts (Ed.). Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and
         Religion.
San Francisco: Council on Spiritual Practices, pp. 139-144.

2000. Methodology and the Study of Western Spiritual Alchemy. Theosophical History 8(2):53-70.

1998. The Exemplary Life. In: Thomas A. Idinopulos & Brian C. Wilson (Eds.), What is Religion?
         Origins, Definitions and Explanations.
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 73-90.

1998. Freud, Sigmund; Rank, Otto. In: Mary Ellen Brown & Bruce A. Rosenberg (Eds.).
         Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp.
         232-233, 537.

1998. The Otherworld as a Western Esoteric Category. In: Antoine Faivre & Wouter J. Hanegraaff
         (Eds.), Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion: Selected Papers presented at the
         17th Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City
         1995.
Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, pp. 75-94.

1998. Reflections on the Meaning of Theosophy. Theosophical History 7/1:18-34.

1998. Stages of Ascension in Hermetic Rebirth. Esoterica 1/1:67-84. [http://www.esoteric.msu.edu]

1997. Transpersonal Psychology: Models of Spiritual Awakening. Religious Studies Review 23/2:141-47.

1996. The Numinous as a Category of Values. In The Sacred and Its Scholars: Comparative
         Methodologies for the Study of Primary Religious Data
, eds. Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A.
         Yonan. Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp. 104-123.

1996. Psychoanalytic Methods in the History of Religion: A Personal Statement. Method and Theory in
         the Study of Religion
8/4:327-343.

1995-96. "And He Trusted in Yahweh": The Transformation of Abram in Gen 12-13 and 15. Journal of
         Psychology of Religion
4-5:65-88.

1994. Freud and Hasidism. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society 19, ed. L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer,
         & Howard F. Stein. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, pp. 335-347. Reprinted in Janet Liebman
         Jacobs & Donald Capps (Eds.), Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis: Readings in Contemporary
         Theory
. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, pp. 11-22.

1994. Reductions of a Working Historian. In Religion and Reductionism: Essays on Eliade, Segal, and
         the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion
, ed. Thomas A. Idinopulos &
         Edward A. Yonan. Numen Bookseries (Studies in the History of Religions), 62. Leiden: E. J.
         Brill, pp. 220-230.

1993. Mythology into Metapsychology: Freud's Misappropriation of Romanticism. The Psychoanalytic
         Study of Society 18
, ed. L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer, & Stephen M. Sonnenberg. Hillsdale,
         NJ: Analytic Press, pp. 345-360.

1992. Spirit and the Problem of Social Instincts: Exceptions to Freud's Critique of Religion. The
         Psychoanalytic Study of Society 17
, ed. L. Bryce Boyer & Ruth Boyer. Hillsdale, NJ:
         Analytic Press, pp. 249-287.

1991. The Discharge of Guilt: Psychoanalytic Theories of Ritual. Journal of Ritual Studies 5/2:15-32.

1991. The Induction of Mystical Union: Two Hasidic Teachings. Studia Mystica 14/4:70-76.

1990. Freud's Atheism, Object Relations and the Theory of Religion. Religious Studies Review 16/1:11-16.

1990. Metaphysical Idealism in Inuit Shamanism. In Religion in Native North America, ed. Christopher
         Vecsey. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, pp. 49-63.

1990. The Study of Spiritual Alchemy: Mysticism, Gold-Making, and Esoteric Hermeneutics. Ambix 37/1:35-45.

1989. Unitive Experiences and the State of Trance. Comments. In Mystical Union and Monotheistic
         Religion: An Ecumenical Dialogue
, ed. Moshe Idel & Bernard McGinn. New York: Macmillan,
         pp. 125-153, 175-183, 230-237, and 239-240. Reprinted in Mystical Union in Judaism,
         Christianity, and Islam: An Ecumenical Dialogue
, ed. Moshe Idel & Bernard McGinn. New
         York: Continuum Publishing Company, 1996.

1989. The Visionary Practices of Jewish Apocalyptists. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society 14, ed.
         L. Bryce Boyer & Simon A. Grolnick. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, pp. 119-148.
         Reprinted in Psychology and the Bible: A New Way to Read the Scriptures, Volume Two: From
         Genesis to Apocalyptic
. Eds. J. Harold Ellens & Wayne G. Rollins. New York:
         Greenwood-Praeger Publishers, 2004, pp. 317-47.

1988. Adaptive Symbolism and the Theory of Myth: The Symbolic Understanding of Myths in Inuit
         Religion. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society 13, ed. L. Bryce Boyer & Simon A.
         Grolnick. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, pp. 63-94.

1988. Prophetic Initiation in Israel and Judah. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society 12, ed. L.
         Bryce Boyer & Simon A. Grolnick. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, pp. 37-67.

1987. Contrary to Nature: Inuit Conceptions of Witchcraft. In Saami Religion: Based on Papers
         read at the Symposium on Saami Religion held at Abo, Finland, on the 16th-18th of August
         1984
, ed. Tore Ahlbeck. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, XII. Stockholm: Almqvist
         & Wiksell International, pp. 279-293. Reprinted as: Arctic: Inuit. In Witchcraft and
         Sorcery: of the American Native Peoples
, ed. Deward E. Walker, Jr. Moscow: University
         of Idaho Press, 1989, pp. 11-21.

1987. Eagle, The Hunter's Helper: The Cultic Significance of Inuit Mythological Tales. History
         of Religions
27/2:171-88.

1985. The Prophecies of Jeremiah. The American Imago 42/1:1-37.

1985. Souls, Spirits, and Indwellers in Nature: Metaphysical Dualism in Inuit Religion. Temenos 21:91-126.

1984. The Nature of the Hypnotic State: A Psychoanalytic Approach. International Review of
         Psycho-Analysis
11/3:345-354.

1983. Breath-Soul and Wind Owner: The Many and the One in Inuit Religion. American Indian
         Quarterly
7/3:23-39.

1981. The Psychodynamics of the Navajo Coyoteway Ceremonial. Journal of Mind and Behavior 2/3:243-257.


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