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Religious Studies, Theology, and Human Flourishing explores the implications of religious studies and theology for well-being, illuminating connections between theory, pedagogy, and practice with nuance and depth. Contributors to the volume, part of The Humanities and Human Flourishing series, construct and critique various conceptualizations of well-being and different approaches to its cultivation, both inside and outside of the classroom. From north India to the buckle of the American Bible Belt, the volume provides a variety of perspectives on approaches to the cultivation of well-being, including formations of the ideal life and the perfect death in antiquity and modernity in the Muslim world; constructions of existential meaning, purpose, and goodness in pastoral theology, care, and counseling; and skepticism surrounding understandings of religion and spirituality in positive psychology, among others.

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Author:   Justin Thomas McDaniel (Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) ,  Hector Kilgoe (Doctoral Candidate of the Department of Religious Studies, Doctoral Candidate of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780197658345

ISBN 10:   0197658342
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   29 August 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Series Editor Foreword Introduction: Aporias and Affordances: An Introduction to the Study of Religion, Theology, and Human Flourishing - Justin McDaniel Part I: Aporias: Defining and Debating Religious Studies, Theology, and Positive Psychology Chapter 1: Sometimes Pessimism Is Good for the Soul: Human Flourishing and a Plea for Complexity - Pamela Cooper-White Chapter 2: Augustine of Hippo's Eudaemonic Counsel - Ellen Charry Chapter 3: Discerning the Good Life: Theology and the Humanities - Matthew Croasmun Part II: Affordances: New Ways of Teaching and Learning Religious Studies and Theology after the Eudaimonic Turn Chapter 4: Sanmati, the Art of 'Generous Disposition': Flourishing Amidst Religious Difference - Leela Prasad Chapter 5: Suffering, Joy, and Wonder: Turning toward the Fullness of Life - Mary Clark Moschella Chapter 6: The Perfumed Life: Teaching a Humanities of Unsettling - Noah Salomon Chapter 7: From the Head to the Heart: Rethinking Approaches to Teaching Buddhism at a Regional State University in the Bible Belt - Jeffrey Samuels Chapter 8: Can 'Spiritual Fitness' be Bad for You?: Lessons from a Military Experiment - Steven Weitzman Chapter 9: Lab Courses for the Humanities: Monastic Living and Existential Despair - Justin McDaniel Index

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Justin Thomas McDaniel is an Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Hector Kilgoe is a Doctoral Candidate of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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