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Christopher G. White

"This book examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century American believers rejected older, often evangelical, theological traditions and turned to scientific psychologies to help them 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 Protestants, 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. Whereas the conventional wisdom about these religious positions and abetted secularization. White points out that they did not minimize or obliterate belief but aided and reshaped it in unexpected ways. Unsettled Minds is the first book to explain the dramatic rise of new spiritualities of the mind, spiritualities that, but the early twentieth century, were turning eagerly to scientific and clinical psychological studies to reimagine religion and the problems of religious uncertainty."--BOOK JACKET.

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Sabine Raillard

La langue des Hébreux, le pouvoir évocateur des images araméennes, intraduisibles dans la langue-culture grecque, auraient gardé pour l'Occident judéo-chrétien, la force surdéterminante de la langue-mère de l'origine. Pourquoi le discours Race et Culture, prononcé par Claude Lévi-Strauss à l'Unesco en 1971, fit-il un tel scandale ? regard rapproché visant à investiguer la place de la phylogenèses dans la langue maternelle au regard de la langue étrangère

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George E. Vaillant

In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that the danger is in religion itself. God, Hitchens writes, is not great.But man, according to George E. Vaillant, M.D., is great. In Spiritual Evolution, Dr. Vaillant lays out a brilliant defense not of organized religion but of man's inherent spirituality. Our spirituality, he shows, resides in our uniquely human brain design and in our innate capacity for emotions like love, hope, joy, forgiveness, and compassion, which are selected for by evolution and located in a different part of the brain than dogmatic religious belief. Evolution has made us spiritual creatures over time, he argues, and we are destined to become even more so. Spiritual Evolution makes the scientific case for spirituality as a positive force in human evolution, and he predicts for our species an even more loving future.Vaillant traces this positive force in three different kinds of "evolution": the natural selection of genes over millennia, of course, but also the cultural evolution within recorded history of ideas about the value of human life, and the development of spirituality within the lifetime of each individual. For thirty-five years, Dr. Vaillant directed Harvard's famous longitudinal study of adult development, which has followed hundreds of men over seven decades of life. The study has yielded important insights into human spirituality, and Dr. Vaillant has drawn on these and on a range of psychological research, behavioral studies, and neuroscience, and on history, anecdote, and quotation to produce a book that is at once a work of scientific argument and a lyrical meditation on what it means to be human. Spiritual Evolution is a life's work, and it will restore our belief in faith as an essential human striving.

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Gary Collins

Many Christians, including Jimmy Swaggart and Dave Hunt, claim psychology is seductive, destructive, and dangerous. These concerns have left many people confused and questioning. If I'm in counseling, should I get out? Are non-Christian counselors always to be avoided? Should pastors do counseling themselves? Should they refer church members to psychologists? Gary R. Collins is one of the most widely read and well-respected authors of our day. He provides a reasoned voice in a sometimes loud and heated debate that threatens the spiritual and emotional vitality of millions. He answers the questions you are asking and gives clear direction in plain language. Here is a book for anyone who questions psychology. - Back cover.