This book examines how nineteenth-and twentieth-century American believers rejected
older, often evangelical, theological traditions and turned to scientific psychologies to …

Starting in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a group of American Christians
rejected their parents' Calvinism and fashioned new views of sin, the self, and spiritual …

In just three generations, American psychology grew from a fledgling science to a culturally
authoritative discipline. Standard accounts of psychology's meteoric rise typically omit what …

During the 1850s, a surprising number of Americans believed that the spirits of the
deceased could be contacted through trance mediums and seances. Many of the radical …

The evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years is the subject of Robert
Wuthnow's engrossing new book. Wuthnow uses in-depth interviews and a broad range of …

Many have worried that the ubiquitous practice of psychology and psychotherapy in America
has corrupted religious faith, eroded civic virtue and weakened community life. But an …

A number of recent studies have drawn attention to how the study of religion and religious
seeking were intertwined in European and American cultures in the nineteenth and …

In fourteenth-century England an anonymous monk wrote an extraordinary text illuminating
the life of contemplative devotion and the drama of the soul's union with God. Precariously …

Choice Essential Read Did God create man or did man create God? In this book, Dianna
Kenny examines religious belief through a variety of perspectives–psychoanalytic, cognitive …

Religion and spirituality were major concerns of the early American psychologists. Largely
influenced by the American Protestant experience of revivals, psychologists focused upon …