Unsettled Minds - Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance 1830 - 1940

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-25679-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Christopher G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher G. White is Assistant Professor of Religion at Vassar College.