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Author:   Kirk Lougheed ,  Travis Myers
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032094780

ISBN 10:   303209478
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   29 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction: Tracing the Narrative.- Part I: Social Science Perspectives.- Chapter Two: Narrative Identity, Meaning, and Religious Community.- Chapter Three:  The Over-Medicalization of Mental Disorder, Suffering, & Meaning-Making.- Chapter Four: Once More, with Feeling: The Ubiquity of Religious Ritual in Meaning-making.- Chapter Five: The Shield of Faith? Understanding Religiosity and Suicidality.- Chapter Six: Traps of Meaning: Need for Closure and Finding Meaning.- Part II: Philosophical Perspectives .- Chapter Seven:   Would God be the Ultimate Attachment Figure? Some Hellish Implications.- Chapter Eight: Faith in Meaning, and Why it Fails.- Chapter Nine: The Shadow Side of Faith: Meaning Vs. Meaninglessness.- Chapter Ten:          Metaphor, Meaning, and Religious Discourse: A Linguistic and Theological Archeology of the 'Liquidation of the Human Spirit’.- Chapter Eleven: On Making a Difference.- Chapter Twelve: Religious Meaning Without Religion: Adapting Herman Dooyeweerd’s Pistic Aspect for a Non-Religious Context.

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Kirk Lougheed is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the Director for the Center for Research on Faith and Human Flourishing at LCC International University. He is also a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria. Travis Myers is Associate Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Theology at LCC International University.

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