Unsettled Minds: Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830-1940 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520256798)

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.

Author: Christopher G. White
ISBN-10: 0520256794
ISBN-13: 9780520256798
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2008
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/23/2009 pg. 20