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Unsettled minds [[electronic resource] ] : psychology and the American search for spiritual assurance, 1830-1940 / / Christopher G. White



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Autore: White Christopher G. <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Unsettled minds [[electronic resource] ] : psychology and the American search for spiritual assurance, 1830-1940 / / Christopher G. White Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
Disciplina: 201/.6150973
Soggetto topico: Psychology, Religious - United States
Psychology and religion - United States
Christianity - Psychology
Liberalism (Religion) - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Religion
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-248) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Unsettled minds  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-94272-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462135503321
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