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Christian Stephen Smith (born 1960) is an American sociologist, currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame.Smith's research focuses primarily on religion in modernity, adolescents and emerging adults, sociological theory, philosophy of science, the science of generosity, American evangelicalism, and culture. [2]
In the United Kingdom, the book was published by Hodder & Stoughton with the subtitle Searching for Meaningful Faith. [5] Random House published a paperback edition in 2003 with the subtitle How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church. [6] In the book, Yancey profiles thirteen authors who helped him in his Christian faith.
In the years preceding this publication, Jung had experienced several dramatic shifts. After the Bugishu Psychological Expedition through East Africa with George Beckwith, Helton Godwin Baynes, and Ruth Bailey, Jung returned to Zürich and focused on the lecture format of his English seminars at the Psychological Club - eventually attracting a new group of international followers. [1]
Excerpt from Waking Up read by Sam Harris on his podcast.. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion is a 2014 book by Sam Harris that discusses a wide range of topics including secular spirituality (essentially within the context of spiritual naturalism), the illusion of the self, psychedelics, and meditation.
Destiny of Souls is a book by Michael Newton (9 December 1931 – 22 September 2016), published in 2000. Newton was a hypnotherapist who developed his own age regression technique. [ citation needed ] The Michael Newton Institute for Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy is a ‘non-profit’ organization formed in 2002.
The author argues for the reality of a transcendent dimension, and maintains that the experience of the sacred plays a decisive role even in a secular society. Scruton supports the concept of "cognitive dualism", which means that a human can be explained both as a physical organism, and as a subjective person who relates to the world through concepts which do not belong in physical sciences ...
Old Souls: The Scientific Search for Proof of Past Lives is a non-fiction book by journalist Tom Shroder.An editor at The Washington Post, Shroder traveled extensively with psychiatrist Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, who conducted past life and reincarnation research in Lebanon, India and the American South. [1]
The full title of the work is The Mirror of the Simple Souls Who Are Annihilated and Remain Only in Will and Desire of Love. The meditations were originally written in the Picard dialect of Old French [2] and explore in poetry and prose the seven stages of "annihilation" that the Soul goes through on its path to Oneness with God through love.