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Being called : scientific, secular, and sacred perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Yaden, David Bryce (Editor), McCall, Theo D. (Editor), Ellens, J. Harold, 1932- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : Praeger, [2015]
Series:Psychology, religion, and spirituality.
Subjects:
Psychology and religion.
Insight.
Spirituality.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / J. Harold Ellens
  • Introduction: How are we called into the future? / Martin Seligman
  • Part I: Scientific and secular perspectives. Callings and the meaning of work / Amy Wrzesniewski
  • The dark side of a calling / Ryan D. Duffy, Richard P. Douglass, and Kelsey L. Autin
  • Road to Damascus moments : calling experiences as prospective epiphanies / David Bryce Yaden and Andrew B. Newberg
  • Neuropsychological and personological aspects of spirituality / Cristiano Crescentini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco Fabbro
  • Called to nonduality / Zoran Josipovic and Judith Blackstone
  • Folk theories of calling in Chinese cultural contexts / Kaiping Peng and Yukun Zhao
  • Calling counselors : a novel calling intervention for career development and well-being / Susanna Wu-Pong
  • On call : physician perspectives on callings in medicine and medical education / Mary "Bit" Smith and Susan Rosenthal
  • Discerning calling : bridging the natural and supernatural / Bryan J. Dik and Michael F. Steger
  • Part II: Sacred perspectives. The normalcy of the paranormal : numinous experiences throughout the life span / J. Harold Ellens
  • Calling of a wounded healer : psychosis, spirituality, and shamanism / David Lukoff
  • The circus snake : a numinous, initiatory calling from below / Thomas Singer
  • Hope and eternity : God as transcendent presence in the ordinary / Theo D. McCall
  • Called to shape the future / Stephen Lewis
  • Sacrifice : the shadow in the calling / Gregg Levoy
  • "I have been anointed and I have fleeced the Lord" : the contemporary serpent handlers of Appalachia and their experience of being called by God / Ralph W. Hood, Jr.
  • Already but not yet : calling and called in religious time / Gordon Bermant
  • "Be thou my vision" : mystical experience and religious calling / J. Hugh Kempster
  • Conclusion: Answering the call / David Bryce Yaden
  • Appendix: Mystics anonymous : an introduction / J. Hugh Kempster and David Bryce Yaden.