Being Called : Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives /: Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Bryce Yaden, Theo D. McCall, J. Harold Ellens.
• Editors: Yaden, David Bryce; McCall, Theo D; Ellens, J. Harold
• Contents: Series Editor's ForewordPreface by J. Harold EllensIntroduction How Are We Called into the Future?Martin SeligmanPart I Scientific and Secular PerspectivesChapter 1 Callings and the Meaning of WorkAmy WrzesniewskiChapter 2 The Dark Side of a CallingRyan D. Duffy, Richard P. Douglass, and Kelsey L. AutinChapter 3 Road to Damascus Moments: Calling Experiences as Prospective EpiphaniesDavid Bryce Yaden and Andrew B. NewbergChapter 4 Neuropsychological and Personological Aspects of SpiritualityCristiano Crescentini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco FabbroChapter 5 Called to NondualityZoran Josipovic and Judith BlackstoneChapter 6 Folk Theories of Calling in Chinese Cultural ContextsKaiping Peng and Yukun ZhaoChapter 7 Calling Counselors: A Novel Calling Intervention for Career Development and Well-BeingSusanna Wu-PongChapter 8 On Call: Physician Perspectives on Callings in Medicine and Medical EducationMary "Bit" Smith and Susan RosenthalChapter 9 Discerning Calling: Bridging the Natural and SupernaturalBryan J. Dik and Michael F. StegerPart II Sacred PerspectivesChapter 10 The Normalcy of the Paranormal: Numinous Experiences throughout the Life SpanJ. Harold EllensChapter 11 Calling of a Wounded Healer: Psychosis, Spirituality, and ShamanismDavid LukoffChapter 12 The Circus Snake: A Numinous, Initiatory Calling from BelowThomas SingerChapter 13 Hope and Eternity: God as Transcendent Presence in the OrdinaryTheo D. McCallChapter 14 Called to Shape the FutureStephen LewisChapter 15 Sacrifice: The Shadow in the CallingGregg LevoyChapter 16 "I have been anointed and I have fleeced the Lord": The Contemporary Serpent Handlers of Appalachia and Their Experience of Being Called by GodRalph W. Hood Jr.Chapter 17 Already but Not Yet: Calling and Called in Religious TimeGordon BermantChapter 18 "Be Thou my Vision": Mystical Experience and Religious CallingJ. Hugh KempsterConclusion Answering the CallDavid Bryce YadenAppendix Mystics Anonymous: An IntroductionJ. Hugh Kempster and David Bryce YadenAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Subjects: Religion -- Psychology of Religion; Psychology -- General; Comparative religion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216052302; 8216052308
• Related ISBNs: 9781440839122
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