Unsettled Minds (eBook)

Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830-1940

Christopher G. White (Autor)

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2008
278 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-94272-1 (ISBN)

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This book examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century American believers rejected older, often evangelical, theological traditions and turned to scientific psychologies to formulate new ideas about mind and spirit and new practices for spiritual growth. Christopher G. White looks in particular at how a group of liberal believers-including William James and G. Stanley Hall-turned away from traditional Christian orthodoxies and built a revised religious identity based on new psychological motifs and therapies. Unsettled Minds is the first book to explain the dramatic rise of new spiritualities of the mind, spiritualities that, by the early twenty-first century, were turning eagerly to scientific and clinical psychological studies to reimagine religion and the problems of religious uncertainty.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Minds Intensely Unsettled
2. Fragments of Truth
3. Nervous Energies
4. Neuromuscular Christians
5. "A Multitude of Superstitions and Crudities"
6. Suggestive Explanations
Epilogue: Intensely Unsettled-Again

Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: 19th century • 20th century • American History • American Psychology • American sociology • Christian Orthodoxy • Clinical psychology • evangelical traditions • faith and religion • Faith and spirituality • g stanley hall • liberal believers • Mind and Spirit • Nonfiction • Psychological therapy • Psychology • reject religion • religious believers • religious doubt • revised identity • scientific psychologies • Search for Meaning • spiritual growth • Spirituality • spiritual rejection • Theology • William James
• ISBN-10: 0-520-94272-8 / 0520942728
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94272-1 / 9780520942721