Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book begins with considerations of the major levels of personality, touching upon several models that have been in psycho-scientific and religious circulation for several decades. It consists of adequate illustrative case studies of personality disorders and religion in novels and creative biographies in English, written for the most part in the twentieth century. One insufficiently researched phenomenon in the field of greater humanities is how people with personality disorders mask their malfunctions with the semblance of religiosity. The belief in a system of reality that transcends the material world goes back to the birth of human society. By the same token, it must contain essential insights into the relationship between personality disorders and religion, and God Behind the Screen explores these very insights.