Michael Scott Alexander (Associate Professor)

Making Peace with the Universe

Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Making Peace with the Universe, Michael Scott Alexander reads diverse classic religious accounts as masterpieces of therapeutic insight. He recasts spiritual confessions as case histories of therapy, showing how they remain radical and deeply meaningful even in an age of scientific psychology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 140mm x 214mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780231198592
• ISBN-10: 0231198590
• Artikelnr.: 59997537

Autorenporträt

Michael Scott Alexander

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Problem
1. The Path of Joy
2. Making Peace with the Universe
Part II: The Classics
3. Socrates: An Old Man and His Daemon
4. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: The Greatest Midlife Crisis in the History of
Islam
5. Qiu Chuji: Chinggis Khan Learns to Cherish Life
6. Mary Lou Williams: Jazz for the Soul
Part III: A Recent Case
7. Bobby Sichran and the Divine Presence
Conclusion: Giving Into Gravity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index