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“robert a hinde”

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  • Why Gods Persist

    A Scientific Approach to Religion

    by Robert A. Hinde, Robert Hinde ...
    What is it about religion that appeals to people? Why do religions and religious beliefs persist in the face of increasing secularisation, harsh criticism and even political persecution? Robert Hinde argues that it is not enough simply to criticize religion, we must understand it - not only how it causes so much conflict, but also how it brings comfort to many.Hinde, a distinguished scientist, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • In Gods We Trust

    The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

    by Scott Atran ...
    Series series Evolution and Cognition
    This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Religious Experience Reconsidered

    A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things

    by Ann Taves ...
    How the sciences of the mind can advance the study of religionThe 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 decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious experience in the study of religion, an approach that effectively isolated the study of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Developing Christian, The: Spiritual Growth through the Life Cycle

    by Peter Feldmeier ...
    Charts spiritual progress through the life cycle by being attentive to classical and modern models of human development and spiritual progress. ... Read more

    $19.96 USD

  • Archetype

    A Natural History of the Self

    by Anthony Stevens ...
    Commonly dismissed as mystical by scientists, archetypes were described by Jung as biological entities, which have evolved through natural selection, and which, if they exist at all, must be amenable to empirical study. Anthony Stevens has discovered the key to opening up this long-ignored scientific approach to the archetype. ... Read more

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  • Religion

    What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

    by Christian Smith ...
    A groundbreaking new theory of religionReligion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past.Drawing on the philosophy ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • In Living Color

    An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling Second Edition

    by Emmanuel Y Lartey ...
    Series series Practical Theology
    The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and reexamined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural influences on individuals in order to effectively counsel, guide and empower them. He provides a clear and concise history of pastoral care and considers its relationship to ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

    Concepts and Applications

    by Fraser Watts ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
    Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality provides readers with a critical overview of what psychology tells us about religion and spirituality. It is concise without being simplistic, and the first such broad overview to be published for some years. Fraser Watts recognizes that 'religion' is complex and multi-faceted, taking different forms in different people and contexts. The book presents a broad ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Psychology for Christian Ministry

    by Rebecca Nye, Sara Savage, Fraser Watts ...
    This introduction to psychology has been devised for those training for and working in the clergy. Ideal both as a professional handbook and a textbook, it covers social, developmental, educational, occupational and counselling psychology, as well as the psychology of religion. It carefully considers the processes of personal change and growth central to religion. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Ritual Animal

    Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity

    by Harvey Whitehouse ...
    A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans promiscuously copy actions that have no obvious instrumental purpose. The copying of causally opaque behaviour ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Psychology of Feeling Sorry

    The Weight of the Soul

    by Peter Randall ...
    Can feeling genuinely sorry enable an important healing experience? Can relieving the weight of guilt restore a general sense of self-worth? Can an individual's dawning awareness give birth to feelings of remorse; perhaps even to acts of repentance?The concepts of betrayal, vengeance and forgiveness have long been a major part of religious doctrine throughout the world. However, only in recent ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Making of Psychotherapists

    An Anthropological Analysis

    by James Davies ...
    Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. By attending closely to what trainees feel, do, and think as they struggle towards professional status, it exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic ... Read more

    $68.99 USD