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Religion and Psychology is a thorough and incisive survey of the current relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field. This is an essential resource for studen……続きを見る

The modern Western movement to embrace Eastern spiritual traditions usually stops with India and the Orient. Westerners have yet to discover the wisdom that dates back even further to ancient Egypt.……続きを見る

Emphasizes the inner life as a constant moving on and the mover as a pilgrim travelling along an ancient Way. This Way to ultimate Reality was called by Gautama the Buddha the Middle Way, the path b……続きを見る

This book provides the essential tools needed to transform negative God images in depressed clients! Pastoral Care of Depression: Helping Clients Heal Their Relationship with God is designed to help……続きを見る

Five historic ministersfive formative career pathswhich path are you on? According to Daniel Levinson’s developmental theory, each person’s professional career path forms at the same time in their l……続きを見る

Delusions play a fundamental role in the history of psychology, philosophy and culture, dividing not only the mad from the sane but reason from unreason. Yet the very nature and extent of delusions ……続きを見る

The cognitive science of religion is a rapidly growing field whose practitioners apply insights from advances in cognitive science in order to provide a better understanding of religious impulses, b……続きを見る

The book starts with the Peter Waldo standing up for what he believed in. He was kicked out of the church, so he started his own religion. The Waldensians came to America to escape religion burden. ……続きを見る

If the widows I counseled had read Leona’s book soon after the death of their husbands, many may not have needed my services. I read Leona’s manuscript from cover to cover. As a practicing psychiatr……続きを見る

An in-depth look at the relevance of religious and spiritual issues to alcohol and drug use and abuse throughout the lifespan Spiritual issues and forgiveness are oft-neglected topics in treatment p……続きを見る

This book highlights the similarities between various religions and depicts how it is only the stereotypes in society which differentiate them from each other. Through exploring the thrilling evolut……続きを見る

Many therapists and counselors find themselves struggling to connect the research on the psychology of religion and spirituality to their clinical practice. This book will address this issue, provid……続きを見る

How will you justify your actions on Judgement Day? Maybe you can just brazen things out; after all it worked down here, most of the time. You must have noticed how all around you greed, anger, envy……続きを見る

This book challenges both conservative religion and fundamentalist atheism (and will probably upset adherents of both), offering a secular spirituality that can be embraced by people of differing fa……続きを見る

In recent years, a movement stressing a causal relationship between spirituality and good health has captured the public imagination. Told that research demonstrates that people of strong faith are ……続きを見る

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by ……続きを見る

Why do religious people believe what they shouldn't -- not what others think they shouldn't believe, but things that don't accord with their own avowed religious beliefs? D. Jason Slone terms this p……続きを見る

The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is a passionate yet analytical critique of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalists. Schimmel examines the ways in which otherwise intelligent an……続きを見る

In the "twinkling of an eye" Jesus secretly returns to earth and gathers to him all believers. As they are taken to heaven, the world they leave behind is plunged into chaos. Cars and airplanes cras……続きを見る

How can people believe that the supernatural end of the world lies just around the corner when, so far, every such prediction has been proved wrong? Some scholars argue that millenarians are psychol……続きを見る

Do you believe in God? Nine out of ten Americans unhesitatingly answer yes. But for Douglas Porpora, the real questions begin where pollsters leave off. What, he asks, does religious belief actually……続きを見る

This book is the first to present new medical research establishing a connection between religion and health and to examine the implications for Eastern and Western religious traditions and for soci……続きを見る

Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every d……続きを見る

Spirits in Culture, History and Mind reintegrates spirits into comparative theories of religion, which have tended to focus on institutionalized forms of belief associated with gods. It brings an hi……続きを見る

Wie kann Männern der Zugang zur Seelsorge erleichtert werden? Was macht Begegnungen mit ihnen in der Seelsorge so besonders? Welche Themen, welche Art des Umgangs mit Krisensituationen und Konflikte……続きを見る

Discover the wisdom and traditions of the world's oldest religion. What do Jews believe about God? How can Jewish wisdom help people of all faiths live with greater happiness and fewer regrets? 続きを見る

Occupy Religion introduces readers to the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and asks provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice. From the temperance mo……続きを見る

Can scientists study religion? Ilkka PyysiSinen says that they can. While the study of religion cannot be reduced to other disciplines, it must not ignore what other disciplines have learned about h……続きを見る

Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehou……続きを見る

Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to exp……続きを見る