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Mind over Matter: How Spirituality Changes Lives
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 400
- Philosophy and Religion, Volume: 400
Mind over Matter is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how spirituality changes lives in a variety of ways. Unlike much philosophically rooted literature on spirituality, it encourages an understanding of what can be achieved through faith, belief, and self-confidence, without reliance on specific (or, necessarily, any) religious doctrines or views. From theistic, non-theistic, or atheistic perspectives each chapter addresses a distinctive phenomenon, for example, spirituality and healing, spirituality and art, spirituality and running, and spirituality as a response to disaster. Not only do they integrate the results of scientific research and other intellectual investigations to illuminate accomplishments, and sometimes possible sources of failure, but they are also written by academics with practical experience in relevant areas, or at least informed by ideas of practitioners.
Heather Salazar, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Western New England University and founder of Sweet Flow Yoga. Her publications include “Descartes and Patanjali’s Conceptions of the Self” (2014), Philosophy of Spirituality (2018), Philosophy of Mind (2019), and Creating a Shared Morality (2021).
Roderick Nicholls, Ph.D., is Academic Vice President and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University. Among his most recent publications are Philosophy of Spirituality (2018), “The Fictionality of Theatrical Performance” (2018), and “Nietzsche on Theatricality and Imagination” (2020).
Roderick Nicholls, Ph.D., is Academic Vice President and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University. Among his most recent publications are Philosophy of Spirituality (2018), “The Fictionality of Theatrical Performance” (2018), and “Nietzsche on Theatricality and Imagination” (2020).
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Roderick Nicholls and Heather Salazar
1 Habit and the ‘How-To’ of Self-Transformation
Rod Nicholls
2 Faith, Meaning, and Spirituality without Religion
Drew Chastain
3 An Atheistic Defense of Faith, or, the Epistemic Necessity of Faith without Belief
Jerry S. Piven
4 Religion and Healing: A Narrative History of Their Interconnections
Jeff Levin
5 Humanizing Enlightenment: Reclaiming the Healing Power of Yoga from Fallen Gurus
Heather Salazar
6 Treating Trauma from a Spiritual, Body-Centered Perspective
Rick McNeil
7 Endurance Running as a Spiritual Experience
Matt Fitzgerald
8 A Crisis of the Soul: Achieving Sobriety through Spiritual Practices
Michelle Petrie
9 Achievement through Humility: Wild Lessons from Benedictine Monasticism
Brother John Baptist and Eric T. Yang
10 Inventing Necessity: Nietzsche, Kandinsky, and Artistic Self-Confidence
Kerem Eksen
11 Materialists for Spirituality
Michael Brodrick
12 Universalizing Universalism: Finding a “Religion of Humanity” in the Aftermath of the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake
Jason Morgan
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Roderick Nicholls and Heather Salazar
1 Habit and the ‘How-To’ of Self-Transformation
Rod Nicholls
2 Faith, Meaning, and Spirituality without Religion
Drew Chastain
3 An Atheistic Defense of Faith, or, the Epistemic Necessity of Faith without Belief
Jerry S. Piven
4 Religion and Healing: A Narrative History of Their Interconnections
Jeff Levin
5 Humanizing Enlightenment: Reclaiming the Healing Power of Yoga from Fallen Gurus
Heather Salazar
6 Treating Trauma from a Spiritual, Body-Centered Perspective
Rick McNeil
7 Endurance Running as a Spiritual Experience
Matt Fitzgerald
8 A Crisis of the Soul: Achieving Sobriety through Spiritual Practices
Michelle Petrie
9 Achievement through Humility: Wild Lessons from Benedictine Monasticism
Brother John Baptist and Eric T. Yang
10 Inventing Necessity: Nietzsche, Kandinsky, and Artistic Self-Confidence
Kerem Eksen
11 Materialists for Spirituality
Michael Brodrick
12 Universalizing Universalism: Finding a “Religion of Humanity” in the Aftermath of the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake
Jason Morgan
Index
Social scientists and humanities scholars interested in non-religious spirituality and efficacy of practices used to enhance the quality of life, and laypersons seeking intellectually bracing but accessible accounts of them.