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| Introduction | |
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| The Vanishing Covenant | |
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| Defining Adulthood | |
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| A Cultural Shift | |
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| Toward a New Integration | |
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| The Enlarged Context | |
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| Ruling in Order to Control | |
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| Democratic Disempowerment | |
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| The Historical Backdrop | |
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| The Patriarchal Inheritance | |
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| The Breakdown | |
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| Our Codependent Culture | |
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| Anarchy Let Loose? | |
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| The Religion of Fearful Submission | |
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| Love and Power Confused | |
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| Problematic Religion | |
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| Beyond Dysfunctional Religion | |
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| The Tyranny of the Rational Mind | |
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| The Fallacy of Rationality | |
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| Rationality and the Evolution of Agriculture | |
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| Control from a Distance | |
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| Robust Individualism | |
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| A New Kind of Heroism | |
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| Reclaiming the Vulnerable Adult | |
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| When Heroes Give Way to Lovers | |
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| Our Frazzled Institutions | |
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| The Institutional Death Knell | |
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| Institutions Disempower | |
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| Networking: The Way Forward | |
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| The Subversive Power of Cooperation | |
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| Fluid Structures | |
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| Theology from the Bottom Up | |
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| The Paradigm Shift | |
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| Theological Confidence | |
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| Theological Bridge-Building | |
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| Horizons of Quantum Possibility | |
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| Calling Forth the Adult in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Out of Modernity | |
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| Characteristics of Contemporary Adulthood | |
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| The Postmodern, Evolutionary Adult | |
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| The New Consciousness | |
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| Transformative Learning for the Protean Adult | |
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| Evolutionary Readiness | |
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| The Transformative Nexus | |
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| The Lure of the Future | |
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| The Beleaguering Mix | |
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| Toward a Spirituality of Homecoming | |
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| The Spiritual Cosmopolitan | |
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| The Rise of Violent Spirituality | |
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| A New Spiritual Metaphor: Homecoming | |
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| Adult Spirituality | |
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| Stages in Adult Faith Development | |
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| From the Child to the Adult | |
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| Adult Faith Development | |
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| The Journey of Faith | |
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| When Adults Do Theology | |
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| Expanding Cultural Horizons | |
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| Our Primal Belonging | |
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| An Enlarged Context | |
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| The Bewildering Paradox | |
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| The Cycle of Creation-and-Destruction | |
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| Engaging Paradox | |
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| A Recurring Cycle | |
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| Suffering as Paradox | |
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| Revisiting the Paradox | |
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| Embracing Embodied Relationality | |
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| First, the Body | |
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| Programed to Relate | |
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| Embodied Sexuality | |
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| What Would Adult Eroticism Look Like? | |
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| Programed for Nonviolence? | |
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| Adult Governance in the Power of Networking | |
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| Inherited Assumptions | |
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| The Controlling Power of Money | |
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| Quantum Theory and the Birth of Networking | |
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| Networking in the Information Age | |
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| Doing Ritual in an Adult Way | |
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| People of Ritual | |
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| Sacramental Experience | |
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| Ritualizing the Gift of Food | |
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| The Adult as Ritual Maker | |
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| When Adults Die Gracefully | |
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| Our Death-Ridden World | |
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| Reclaiming a More Adult Approach | |
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| The Dynamics of Death-and of Life! | |
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| Letting Go into Deeper Freedom | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |