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Unsettled minds : psychology and the American search for spiritual assurance, 1830-1940 / Christopher G. White.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Christopher G., 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology, Religious--United States.
- Psychology, Religious.
- Psychology and religion--United States.
- Psychology and religion.
- Christianity--Psychology.
- Christianity.
- Liberalism (Religion)--United States.
- Liberalism (Religion).
- United States--Religion.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-248) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780520942721
- 0520942728
- OCLC:
- 808600655
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