The Secular Mind

by RobertColes (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $14.86

  Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and author Robert Coles offers a meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is an essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind. Interwoven into the story is Coles's personal quest for understanding how the sense of the sacred has stood firm in the lives of individuals - both the famous and everyday people whom he has known - even as they have struggled with doubt.