03207nam 2200673Ia 450 991082458170332120200520144314.00-520-94272-810.1525/9780520942721(CKB)2670000000193546(EBL)1609006(SSID)ssj0000676086(PQKBManifestationID)11460025(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676086(PQKBWorkID)10672310(PQKB)10283836(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084792(OCoLC)808600655(DE-B1597)520670(OCoLC)952757767(DE-B1597)9780520942721(Au-PeEL)EBL1609006(CaPaEBR)ebr10675819(OCoLC)870245541(MiAaPQ)EBC1609006(EXLCZ)99267000000019354620140109d2009 ub 0engurnnu---|u||utxtccrUnsettled minds psychology and the American search for spiritual assurance, 1830-1940 /Christopher G. White1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20091 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25679-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-248) and index.Front matter --Contents --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 --IndexThis 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.Psychology, ReligiousUnited StatesPsychology and religionUnited StatesChristianityPsychologyLiberalism (Religion)United StatesUnited StatesReligionPsychology, ReligiousPsychology and religionChristianityPsychology.Liberalism (Religion)201/.6150973White Christopher G.1969-1701986MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824581703321Unsettled minds4086159UNINA