The Secular Mind Audiobook by Robert Coles

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Listen to full audiobook for free : https://audiobookzap.com/free Title: The Secular Mind Categories: Anthropology, Christianity, Cognition, Health Author: Robert Coles Narrator: Lloyd James Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Release date: 07-16-2010 Language: English Summary: Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind. Interwoven into the story is Cole'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. As a student, Coles questioned Paul Tillich on the meaning of the "secular mind", and his fascination with the perceived opposition between secular and sacred intensified over the years. This book recounts conversations Coles has had with such figures as Anna Freud, Karen Horney, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, and Dorothy Day. Their words dramatize the frustration and the joy of living in both the secular and sacred realms. Coles masterfully draws on a variety of literary sources that trace the relationship of the sacred and the secular: the stories of Abraham and Moses, the writings of St.

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