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

Zusatztext "[White's] scholarship adds depth and richness to the history of psychological science." Informationen zum Autor Christopher G. White is Assistant Professor of Religion at Vassar College. Klappentext "Christopher White's Unsettled Minds makes clear how important new psychologies of religion were for those Protestants navigating their way out of Calvinism and evangelical revivalism. Just as his religious liberals remapped mind and spirit! White has remapped the historical terrain of religion and psychology in American culture. He spotlights not a cultural world absorbed with ecstasy! altered states! or mythic depths! but instead one riveted on measured stages of spiritual growth and effective habits of self-discipline."-Leigh Eric Schmidt! Princeton University "An important contribution to the growing literature on the history of religious experience and of the distinctive dynamics of Christian interiority in the modern U.S."-Robert Orsi! Northwestern University "Today! when brain researchers and psychologists are again attempting to explain religion! this remarkable study suggests that we should not be surprised to see religious believers creatively embracing new scientific findings and making use of them for religious purposes unexpected by scientists."-Ann Taves! author of Fits! Trances! and Visions Zusammenfassung Examines how nineteenth and twentieth-century American believers rejected older, evangelical, theological traditions and turned to psychologies to formulate ideas about mind and spirit and practices for spiritual growth. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

Product details

• Authors: Christopher G. White, White Christopher G.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2008
• EAN: 9780520256798
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25679-8
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; USA, RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / History, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Spirituality & religious experience, History of Religion, Alternative belief systems, United States of America, USA, Spirituality and religious experience, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)