Unsettled Minds

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

By: Christopher G. White

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Hardcover | 25 November 2008 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"A thoroughly researched and clearly written work on American cross-roads between religion and psychology." -- Gustav Jahoda Metapsychology Online Review "A valuable and original perspective on the ongoing vitality of the religious impulse in American culture." -- E. S. Steele Choice "A well-researched and expansive treatment of an enduring theme in American religious life." -- Robert C. Fuller Church History "[White's] scholarship adds depth and richness to the history of psychological science." -- Matthew S. Hedstromo Journal American Academy Of Religion/ Jaar

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Christianity Religion History of Religion Psychology Aspects of Religion for Non-Christians Spirituality & Religious Experience Alternative Belief Systems History Regional & National History History of the Americas

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Minds Intensely Unsettled	p. 13
Fragments of Truth	p. 39
Nervous Energies	p. 75
Neuromuscular Christians	p. 104
"A Multitude of Superstitions and Crudities"	p. 134
Suggestive Explanations	p. 158
Epilogue: Intensely Unsettled-Again	p. 196
Notes	p. 213
Index	p. 249
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Unsettled Minds

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

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