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008			200304s2020 nyu ob 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aBL71 _b.M355 2020
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aAlexander, Michael Scott, _e1
245	1	0	_aMaking peace with the universe : _bpersonal crisis and spiritual healing / _cMichael Scott Alexander.
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c(c)2020.
300			_a1 online resource
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"Spiritual confessions often comprise the notes of a personal crisis, typically set off by some dark reminder of the human condition, whether illness and bodily demise, addiction, loss of a loved one, or just the silent decay of hope and purpose common to all stages of life. These crises have often resolved into masterpieces of therapeutic insight--profound, radical, sometimes subversive, and still of value even in our age of scientific psychology. Making Peace With The Universe considers classic documents of personal religion on their own explicitly therapeutic terms by analyzing the agonizing backstories that inspired them. For millennia the world's astounding array of religious traditions have cultivated a particular psychological affect--an edifying spiritual mood--and developed daily practices to encourage it. Seen this way, religion was the forum for therapy before the modern scientific undertaking existed. This book understands classic and diverse religious confessions--William James; Muslim legal scholar turned mystic Hamid al-Ghazali; Chinggis Khan, as described by the Daoist monk Qui Chuji; Catholic jazz composer, pianist, and singer Mary Lou Williams; and Socrates, one of the earliest recorded examples of existential crisis--as exemplars that record the achievement of integrative psychological health through nourishing the spiritual mood, moving from personal crisis to peace with the universe"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aIntro -- _tTable of Contents -- _tPart I: The Problem -- _t1. The Path of Joy -- _t2. Making Peace with the Universe -- _tPart II: The Classics -- _t3. Socrates: An Old Man and His Daemon -- _t4. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: The Greatest Midlife Crisis in the History of Islam -- _t5. Qiu Chuji: Chinggis Khan Learns to Cherish Life -- _t6. Mary Lou Williams: Jazz for the Soul -- _tPart III: A Recent Case -- _t7. Bobby Sichran and the Divine Presence -- _tConclusion: Giving Into Gravity -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
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650		0	_aReligious biography.
650		0	_aPsychology and religion _vCase studies.
650		0	_aSpiritual healing _vCase studies.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell