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  • Relationships

    A Dialectical Perspective

    by Robert Hinde ...
    This volume on close relationships in adulthood discusses the central issues in the field and points the way towards the construction of an integrated body of knowledge about human relationships. The self, interactions, relationships and grops are treated as dynaimc proceses in dialectical relations with each other and with the socio-cultural structure of norms, values, beliefs and institutions.; ... Read more

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  • Mind and Religion

    Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion

    Series series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious traditions emerge from different ways of activating universal memory systems. In Mind and Religion, ... Read more

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  • Why Good is Good

    The Sources of Morality

    by Robert Hinde ...
    Where do our moral beliefs come from? Theologians and scientists provide often conflicting answers. Robert Hinde resolves these conflicts to offer a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary response, drawing on psychology, philosophy, evolutionary biology and social anthropology. Hinde argues that understanding the origins of our morality can clarify the debates surrounding contemporary ethical dilemmas ... Read more

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  • Why Gods Persist

    A Scientific Approach to Religion

    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

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    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

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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

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  • A Sociology of Religious Emotion

    This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back onto the agenda. It challenges a tendency to over-emphasise rational aspects of religion, and rehabilitates its embodied, visceral and affective dimensions. Against the view that religious emotion is a purely private matter, it offers a new framework which shows how religious emotions arise in the varied ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Play and Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education

    Concepts, Contexts and Cultures

    Edited by Sue Rogers ...
    Bringing together a collection of chapters from international experts in the field of early childhood education, Rethinking Play and Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education seeks to explore how play in the Early Years is valued as a means of learning. The book discusses how play is presented, transformed by institutional and pedagogical discourses and ultimately experienced by children. Adopting ... Read more

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  • Values & Ethics in Counselling and Psychotherapy

    This book offers an introduction to values and ethics in counselling and psychotherapy, helping you to develop the ethical awareness needed throughout the counselling process. The book covers:- Context and emergence of ethics in counselling- Exercises to explore personal and professional values- Tools to develop ethical mindfulness- Differences between therapeutic models- Relational ethics- ... Read more

    $70.19 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

  • Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling & Psychotherapy

    Edited by Barbara Smith, Colin Lago ...
    Series series Professional Skills for Counsellors Series
    Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking text which identifies the ease with which individuals can be disadvantaged merely on the basis of their gender, race, culture, age, sexuality or ability. Examining these and other areas of discrimination, leading experts highlight how vital it is for counsellors, psychotherapists - and others in the helping ... Read more

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

    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