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20th century
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american history
american psychology
american sociology
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christian orthodoxy
clinical psychology
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evangelical traditions
faith and religion
faith and spirituality
g stanley hall
liberal believers
mind and spirit
nonfiction
psychological therapy
psychology
reject religion
religious believers
religious doubt
revised identity
scientific psychologies
search for meaning
spiritual growth
spiritual rejection
spirituality
theology
william james
Product details
- ISBN 9780520256798
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Christopher G. White is Assistant Professor of Religion at Vassar College.
