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In Living Religion James W. Jones offers a new approach to understanding religion, bringing the long-standing tradition of a spiritual sense up to date by linking it to contemporary neuroscientific theories that support the argument of this book that reason is on the side of those who choose a religiously lived life.
List of contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Understanding as Living
- Chapter Two: The Embodied Mind and the Mind Suffused Body
- Chapter Three: Meaning Making-An Embodied-Relational Approach
- Chapter Four: Knowing Religion
- Chapter Five: Living Religion
- Conclusion: Embodying Religion
- Notes on Chapters
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
James W. Jones is Distinguished Professor of the Psychology of Religion, Emeritus, at Rutgers University. He is the author of fifteen books and numerous professional papers, and the editor of several volumes of collected papers dealing with religion, psychology, and science. He serves on the editorial boards of several publications. He is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church USA and has maintained a private practice of clinical psychology, specializing in psychophysiology and behavioral medicine.
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In Living Religion James W. Jones offers a new approach to understanding religion, bringing the long-standing tradition of a spiritual sense up to date by linking it to contemporary neuroscientific theories that support the argument of this book that reason is on the side of those who choose a religiously lived life.
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In Living Religion, James Jones has once again offered us an interdisciplinary inquiry that is richly informative, arguing clearly and convincingly that psychology of religion should make religious practices the central subject of study, rather than beliefs or theological propositions taken apart from context and community. With a new emphasis on 'embodied cognition', Jones draws multiple strands of religious studies, philosophy, and psychology into fruitful dialogue, resulting not only in an impressively detailed argument, but a methodology too rarely seen and much to be emulated.
