Homans, Peter

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HOMANS, Peter

HOMANS, Peter. American, b. 1930. Genres: Theology/Religion, Social sciences, Psychology. Career: Professor of psychology and religious studies, University of Chicago, since 1978 (Assistant Professor, 1965-68; Associate Professor, 1968-78). Lecturer, University of Toronto, 1962-64; Assistant Professor, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1964-65. Publications: (ed. and contrib.) The Dialogue Between Psychology and Theology, 1968; Theology After Freud: An Interpretive Inquiry, 1970; (ed. and contrib.) Childhood and Selfhood: Essays on Tradition, Religion and Modernity in the Psychology of Erik H. Erikson; Jung in Context: Modernity and the Making of a Psychology, 1979, Italian translation, 1982, Japanese translation, 1986; The Ability to Mourn: Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis, 1989. Address: 1025 E. 58th St, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A.