The call of spiritualemergency

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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.

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Hung Ying-ming

In three hundred and fifty-seven verses, the author, Hung Ying-ming, a seventeenth-century Chinese sage, explores good and evil, honesty and deception, wisdom and foolishness, heaven and hell. He draws from the wisdom of the "Three Creeds" - Taoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism - to impress upon us that by combining simple elegance with the ordinary, we can make our lives into art. This sense permeates Chinese and Japanese culture to this day.--From back cover.