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Coles, Robert [Verfasser]

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (198 pages)

978-1-4008-2281-2 ; 1-4008-2281-5 ; 978-0-691-08862-4

 

Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind. Interwoven into the story is Coles's personal quest for understand.