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Newberg's The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives engages thoughtfully with this science-and-spirituality nexus, considering the processes and psychological outcomes associated with an array of inner phenomena grouped under the umbrella of the \"spiritual.\" The book reflects on the decades-long project of neurotheology in which Newberg was a founding figure, and takes up James's speculations about a science of religion with simultaneous modesty and ambition. * Alicia Puglionesi, H-Sci-Med-Tech *\u003cbr\u003eThe title summarizes the ambitious goal of the book: establishing a foundational work for the twenty-first-century study of spiritual experiences...the book would be a perfect read for scholars from psychology and neuroscience and for scholars and graduate students from medicine, religious studies, philosophy, pharmacology, anthropology, and psychiatry. * Zsuzsanna Szugyiczki, Religious Studies Review  *\u003cbr\u003eDavid B Yaden and Andrew B Newberg have written a seminal book that will be of high interest to mental health clinicians and researchers, pastoral counselors and caregivers, clergy, theologians, and philosophers. * Charles D.Mayer, Anglican Theological Review 103 *\u003cbr\u003eThe Varieties of Spiritual Experience is a broad entree into contemporary research on spiritual experience and is a good go-to,...It would fit well in an undergraduate\/graduate religious studies course as well as in a theory and methods class. * Benjamin Crace, Nova Religio vol 27.2 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I: THE SCIENCE OF ALTERED STATES Chapter 1: Introduction: Toward a Science of Spiritual Experience for the 21st Century Chapter 2: William James: A Study in Human Nature Chapter 3: The Varieties: The Classic Text and its Impact Chapter 4: The Psychology of Spiritual Experiences  Chapter 5: The Brain on Spiritual Experiences Chapter 6: Origins: Triggers of Spiritual Experience Chapter 7: The Pragmatic Principle: Positive and Pathological Experiences PART II: THE VARIETIES Chapter 8: Types of Spiritual Experience Chapter 9: Numinous Experiences: Encountering Divinity Chapter 10: Revelatory Experiences: Voices, Visions, and Epiphanies Chapter 11: Synchronicity Experiences:","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732541747543,"sku":"9780190665678","price":23.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190665678.jpg?v=1719997350"},{"product_id":"the-great-conversation-9780190842673","title":"The Great Conversation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the face of climate change, species loss, and vast environmental destruction, Belden C. 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In the many sites, texts and personal memories it explores, Douglas Christie's book invites us to recognize and reflect on our own heterotopias, and what we might then offer the world, by dwelling in these spaces of otherness. * Constance Furey, Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University - Bloomington *\u003cbr\u003eIn his powerful, original and important new work, Douglas Christie explores the intersection of personal loss, atrocity, and apophatic mystical texts, suggesting how a contemplative ethos can discover in the isolating experience of personal and social trauma the ground of a renewed and deepened solidarity. Seekers and contemplatives from other traditions, or no tradition, will find in The Insurmountable Darkness of Love a deep and attractive point of access to the riches of contemplative Christianity. * Cistercician Studies Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eI have been pursuing the love 'born of and nurtured by darkness' all of my life. In The Insurmountable Darkness of Love, Douglas Christie invites readers to embark on a journey of 'silent attention' awakening, shedding, and finally the embrace of what cannot be known. So, how do you write about something that cannot be captured in words? Christie uses vulnerability, life stories and memories as well as excellent scholarship. The end result is breathtaking! * Barbara A. Holmes, author of Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church *\u003cbr\u003eWith all the tumult, chaos and uncertainty in our world, we need a spiritual compass to navigate the pain and suffering that is part and parcel of being soulfully alive today. As our most poetic and compassionate scholar of contemplative practice, Douglas Christie guides us on a most profound journey into the darkness that underlies many mystical experiences, one that is ultimately redemptive. At no time in human history have we needed a prophetic voice like Christie's as we do now. * Gary Paul Nabhan, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother and author of Jesus for Farmers and Fishers *\u003cbr\u003eMaybe the key word in all the world's religions is emptiness. But it takes a Laozi or a Thomas Merton to map it. Or generous and wise Douglas Christie. I cannot think of a book with more heart or with such tenderness for our 'apocalyptic psyche.' His lyrical, learned, gentle book holds us to the 'blank, unnamed, empty, unknown,' where 'Love itself is a desert.' * Lynda Sexson, author of Ordinarily Sacred and Margaret of the Imperfections *\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Christie's The Insurmountable Darkness of Love is a moving exploration of apophatic experience and language in the contemporary retrieval of contemplation. The book daringly combines several different genres * personal accounts of loss and gain; meditations on the natural world and its role in spirituality; and reflections on the significance of major apophatic thinkers and poets. This is a book to be pondered, even savored.Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity, The University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003eThe Insurmountable Darkness of Love is remarkable not just for its depth of insight and its mining of the rich veins of the contemplative tradition, but also for its piercing honesty. It probes the loves, the losses, the tender frailties of us all and reflects the author's unflinching conviction regarding the power of darkness to heal, to reveal love that never allows anyone to be lost. 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