Unsettled Minds : Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830-1940

White, Christopher G.

University of California Press（2008/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 278 p.／サイズ 20 b/w photos.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520256798
• DDC分類 201.6150973

Full Description

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

List of 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