The Positive Thinkers
Written by Donald Meyer
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $19.99
The subject of Professor Meyer's superb study concerns the dissolution of the Protestant ethic, its relationship to a general failure of nerve within the American community, and the consequent rise of a pseudo-theology in the guise of a pseudo-psychology, as reflected through the work of certain "mind-cure" practitioners, from Mary Baker...
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When God Talks Back
Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
Written by T.M. Luhrmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012
A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country's most prominent anthropologists.
Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with...
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The Murmuring Deep
Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious
Written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg informs her literary analysis of the biblical text with concepts drawn from Freud, Winnicott, Laplanche, and other psychoanalytic thinkers to make a powerful argument for the idea that the creators of the midrashic commentary, the medieval rabbinic commentators, and the Hassidic commentators were themselves on some level aware...
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The Only Dance There Is
Written by Ram Dass
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2011
Price: $11.99
This book is based on talks by Ram Dass at the Menninger Foundation in 1970 and at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972. The text grew out of the interaction between Ram Dass and the spiritual seekers in attendance at these talks. The result of this unique exchange is...
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The Murmuring Deep
Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious
Written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $17.99
From one of the most innovative and acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, here is a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the men and women of the Bible.
For centuries scholars and rabbis have wrestled with the biblical narrative, attempting to answer the...
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Atheists
A Groundbreaking Study of America's Nonbelievers
Written by Bruce E. Hunsberger
Format: Trade Paperback, 159 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $20.99
According to polls, almost all Americans believe in God. So atheists naturally stand out as dissident nay-sayers, especially when challenging the use of "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, or the display of religious symbols in public places. Such protests make many Americans wonder about the motivations and character of militant...
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Death, Trust and Society
Mapping Religion and Culture
Written by Lionel Rothkrug
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2006
Price: $25.00
Lionel Rothkrug made his name 25 years ago by theorizing that just as a human personality is defined by how an individual organizes his or her powers to behave, so a society acquires personality in the exercise of its organizational powers.
Death, Trust and Society revisits and expands on this concept...
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