Fits, trances, visions, speaking in tongues, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences,
possession. Believers have long viewed these and similar involuntary experiences as …

The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that
could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent …

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

NEW WINESKINS draws the biblical, historical, theological, psychological, and experiential
foundations of religious life into a remarkably new synthesis that is eminently credible …

Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from
dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to …

First published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experience initiated the psychological
study of religion, paving the way for Freud and Jung as well as for clinical and paranormal …

In large chain bookstores the" religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding
number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration …

Few expressions of New Age spirituality evoke greater skepticism and derision than does
channeling, the practice of serving as a vessel for the voices of ancient or otherworldly …

Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that
range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther …

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a new-found love of spontaneity transformed
Christian worship and revolutionized the Enlightenment's" culture of sensibility." Rituals of …