How to Be an Adult in Faith and Spirituality

Name: How to Be an Adult in Faith and Spirituality
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ISBN: 9780809146918

ISBN-10: 0809146916

ISBN-13: 9780809146918

Edition: 2019

Authors: David Richo

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Part of psychology health is growing up not only in mind but in how we see the questions of faith and spirituality. To this end this book provides a detailed and straightforward vision of what faith and spirituality can look like in adult consciousness.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication date: 5/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.99" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484

DAVID RICHO, PhD, is a psychotherapist, teacher, writer, and workshop leader whose work emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness and loving-kindness in personal growth and emotional well-being. He is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling How to Be an Adult in Relationships and The Five Things We Cannot Change.



Introduction



Healthy Self, Healthy Beliefs


The Power of Childhood


Stages of Growth and Faith


Auditing Our Religion


Pondering the Criteria of an Adult Religion



What Is Religion?


Four Elements


Early Religion


The Religion of Patriotism


When Patriarchy Rules



What About Spirituality?


A Cosmic Dimension


Egoic Religion and Spiritually Aware Religion


How Spirituality Makes Love Universal


Showing the Wholeness That We Are



What Is Faith?


Faith and Fact


Room for Both Science and Faith


Firsthand Faith


Poems, Not Headlines


When Faith Falls into the Void


The Void and Depression


Walking through the Valley of the Shadow



Practicing Adult Faith


We Accept Life's Givens


We Are Open to Many Traditions


We Appreciate Metaphor


We See Prayer Differently


We Are Free from Superstition


We Are Free from Obsession with Religion


We Ponder the Afterlife



What Is Meant by God?


Out There or in Here?


The Supernatural


Three More Ways of Describing the Divine


A Mystical View


The Depth View


An Evolutionary View



Mystery and Metaphor


Are There Atheists?


How We Might Take God Personally


God and Evil


Noticing Our Own Dark Side


Befriending the Shadow through Loving-kindness


Epilogue: The Call to Be Cosmic