Author: Douglas L. Winiarski File Type: pdf This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorous lay piety of the early eighteenth century. George Whitefields preaching tour of 1740 called into question the fundamental assumptions of this thriving religious culture. Incited by Whitefield and fascinated by miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit--visions, bodily fits, and sudden conversions--countless New Englanders broke ranks with family, neighbors, and ministers who dismissed their religious experiences as delusive enthusiasm. These new converts, the progenitors of todays evangelical movement, bitterly assaulted the Congregational establishment. The 1740s and 1750s were the dark night of the New England soul, as men and women groped toward a restructured religious order. Conflict transformed inclusive parishes into exclusive networks of combative spiritual seekers. Then as now, evangelicalism emboldened ordinary people to question traditional authorities. Their challenge shattered whole communities. **

Author: Manu Bazzano File Type: pdf Drawing on over a century of international Nietzschean scholarship, this groundbreaking book discusses some of the unexplored psychological reaches of Nietzsches thought, as well as their implications for psychotherapeutic practice.Nietzsches philosophy anticipated some of the most innovative cultural movements of the last century, from expressionism and surrealism to psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology and phenomenology. But his work on psychology often remains discarded, despite its many insights. Addressing this oversight, and in an age of managerialism and evidence-based practice, this book helps to redefine psychotherapy as an experiment that explores the limits and intricacies of human experience. It builds the foundations for a differentialist psychology a life-affirming project that can deal squarely with the challenges, joys and sorrows of being human.Nietzsche and Psychotherapy will be of great interest to researchers interested in the relationship between psychotherapy and philosophy, Nietzschean scholars, as well as to clinicians grappling with the challenges of working in the so-called post-truth age.**ReviewManu Bazzanos Nietzsche and Psychotherapy is not just a breath of fresh air in contemporary psychotherapy. It is what Nietzsche would call a full gale. It blows open windows and doors on vistas of which most of those concerned with mental health, behavioral science, and wellness those handmaidens of social-political hygiene have no clue. Nietzsche rightly considered himself the first of a new type of psychologist that had yet to be imagined, and said that it would take a century and more before his writings would begin to be understood. Today, some hundred plus years later, we are seeing an emerging Nietzschean type of psychology. Bazzanos Nietzsche and Psychotherapy is a major contribution to that development. It is an important and challenging work, because Nietzsche is an important and challenging thinker, and because applying him to psychotherapy is an important and challenging enterprise. This book is not for psychotherapists who, faint of heart and without realizing it, labor for the sake of social-political hygiene rather than for the life that animates their clients. It is for psychotherapists who dare to be bold and, most importantly, willing to dignify the lives of their clients by inspiring and encouraging the same boldness and daring in them. --Daniel Chapelle, author, Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis The Soul In Everyday Life and (forthcoming) Nietzsche and the Buddha Different Lives, Same Ideas How Nietzsche May Yet Become the Wests Own Buddha.With curiosity, skill and mischievousness, Bazzano taps the bell of psychotherapy with Nietzsches hammer. The resulting sound is something I wish for every therapist to hear it dispels Gods and their shadows, and resonates with the beauty of engagement. Read it at your peril the more rigorous your therapeutic worldviews, the deeper they will crack. --Dr Niklas Serning, Senior Lecturer University of the West of England, Consultant Psychotherapist OTR, Chartered Psychologist,Existential and Child psychotherapist, Registered SupervisorAbout the Author Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist in private practice and a visiting lecturer at Roehampton University, London. He facilitates seminars and workshops internationally on Zen and Phenomenology. His books include Buddha is Dead (2006) Spectre of the Stranger (2012) After Mindfulness (2014) Therapy and the Counter-tradition (2016) Zen and Therapy (2017) Re-visioning Person-centred Therapy (2018). www.manubazzano.com.

Author: Paola Cavalieri File Type: epub While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding of the nonhuman in such a way that the derogatory category of the animal becomes meaningless. In so doing, she presents a nonhierachical approach to ethics that better respects the value of the conscious self. Cavalieri opens with a dialogue between two imagined philosophers, laying out her challenge to moral perfectionism and tracing its influence on our attitudes toward the unworthy. She then follows with a roundtable multilogue which takes on the role of reason in ethics and the boundaries of moral status. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner for Literature and author of The Lives of Animals, emphasizes the animality of human beings Miller, a prominent analytic philosopher at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, dismantles the rationalizations of human bias Cary Wolfe, professor of English at Rice University, advocates an active exposure to other worlds and beings and Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida, extends ethical consideration to entities that traditionally have little or no moral status, such as plants and ecosystems. As Peter Singer writes in his foreword, the implications of this conversation extend far beyond the issue of the moral status of animals. They get to the heart of some important differences about how we should do philosophy, and how philosophy can relate to our everyday life. From the divergences between analytical and continental approaches to the relevance of posthumanist thinking in contemporary ethics, the psychology of speciesism, and the practical consequences of an antiperfectionist stance, The Death of the Animal confronts issues that will concern anyone interested in a serious study of morality. **

Author: Robert M. Bohm File Type: pdf This slim volume offers a comprehensive survey of the major criminological and delinquency theories, including their philosophical foundations, policy implications, empirical support, and criticisms. A PRIMER ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY THEORY can be used as a primary text or as a supplement for other texts, anthologies, or collections of journal articles.Important Notice Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.