Publication

1999 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

47,250 words, Guess

Page Count

189 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number98039388
  • Goodreads1802919
  • LibraryThing47156

Classifications

  • DDC291.1/7
  • LCCBL2760 .C65 1999

Description

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 understanding how the sense of the sacred has stood firm in the lives of individuals - both the famous and everyday people whom he has known - even as they have struggled with doubt.

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