Participation and the mystery

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Emma Bragdon

"An explanation of the causes, dynamics and potential benefits of life's transformative events or "spiritual emergencies" which can trigger emotional or psychic reactions ranging from near-death experiences, ESP, visions, and profound religious experiences. Because one's view of reality changes drastically when having these experiences, the immediate effect can be confusion, depression, physical illness, suicidal behaviour or other crises. This book is a guide to knowing what to do when one has one of these "spiritual emergencies" and is intended to be of help in spreading awareness of the meaning of these episodes and to encourage creative response." -- Amazon. "Change your "spiritual emergency" into a spiritual awakening. Emma Bragdon explains the causes, dynamics, and potential benefits of life's transformative events." -- back cover.

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Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and Michael Argyle

"The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience is the most comprehensive survey available of theories and research on religion from the perspective of psychology. Religious belief is never evenly distributed, and is correlated with such variables as social background, gender and personality characteristics. Beit-Hallahmi and Argyle use findings in these areas to test numerous explanations of the origins and functions of religion in human culture. They also consider social consequences of religiosity, religious experience, religious attitudes, the effect of religion on health, the acquisition of beliefs, conversion, and the benefits or otherwise of religion. Their main conclusion is that religiosity is first and foremost social, and is learned like other kinds of social acts." "Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and Michael Argyle are renowned for their clear, analytical approach, and this new state-of-the-art study of psychology and religion is no exception. It will be welcomed as an update to their previous work in the area by social psychologists, sociologists and theologians worldwide."--BOOK JACKET.

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David M. Wulff

An unbiased, comprehensive introduction to the psychology of religion. This book integrates clinical, theoretical, and empirical literature, as well as biographical information of the lives of significant psychologists and their works. It contains new research on meditation, the correlational study of religion, religion and mental health, object relations theory, pluralism and social constructionism.

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Malcolm A. Jeeves

"In Human Nature and the Millennium, Malcolm Jeeves deftly surveys past efforts in the integration endeavor, enriching the discussion with his expertise in the field of neuropsychology. He concludes that integration may not be as fruitful as many have intimated. His challenge to integrationists will certainly need to be taken seriously."--BOOK JACKET.