http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/ Course Companion en-us 2008-04-11T15:56:39-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/021427.html Welcome to this web site. How to use? Find your way, over time, by the links at the bottom right (I'll post things in categories so they will be easy to find). Or just page down, as the oldest postings... Starting Up shawx001 2008-01-01T15:28:59-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/021909.html Important! Reading Reflection Assignment Policies Please note that this is a four-credit college class, so you should be spending an average of 12 hours a week total on attending class, reading, and writing for the class. This is a formula... Starting Up shawx001 2008-01-02T20:55:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/021531.html Video Notes: A Still Small Voice, Bill Kurtis host 1. Examples: Valerie Andrews, researcher for Time Magazine, author -- "Nature Mysticism" -- . --Tim McDonald -- experience of "theistic mysticism" --Joseph Goldstein -- Buddhist monk -- experience in Tibet --... Class Notes (lectures, video notes, etc.) shawx001 2008-01-04T13:36:01-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/021911.html After the Sea of Faith television series and videos became very popular (and controversial!), Don Cupitt wrote a book covering the information and adding to it. Below you will find a URL for a web site in New Zealand providing... Resources and Additional Reading shawx001 2008-01-18T11:16:07-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/021882.html Notes from Nineteenth Century American Spiritualism: An Attempt at a Scientific Religion, by Mary Farrell Bednarowski (1973 Ph.D. Thesis) A key aspect of the 19th century experience of religion in the US and Britain was the cultural conflict between religion... Resources and Additional Reading shawx001 2008-01-23T14:08:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/021883.html Here is a set of notes I created in the past as an overview of the Varieties. Hope they are helpful! Summary Notes on William James Mary Ellen Shaw - for Religion & Psychology, 2007 First chapter: Religion and Neurology... Resources and Additional Reading shawx001 2008-01-29T12:20:57-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/024452.html Additional Supplementary Reading for Week #4: This is a chapter from my dissertation that explores gender issues in William James's Varieties of Religious Experience. Use it for background reading, especially if it is helpful for a paper topic you have... Resources and Additional Reading shawx001 2008-01-29T14:40:09-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/022129.html Readings on Buddhism and Psychology - First read Chapter 9 in Taylor, if you haven't already - the discussion questions for that were posted last week, and are listed again below. Then read the first three articles linked below for... Resources and Additional Reading shawx001 2008-01-31T12:31:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/022759.html Pop Spirituality Entrepreneurs - Wannabe Indigenous Gurus Please read this whole posting and browse through the links presented. Here are some questions we can discuss in class: Why have so many non-native spiritual writers presented themselves as representing secret indigenous... Resources and Additional Reading shawx001 2008-02-07T22:48:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/023186.html Following are a few selected links that have summary information about the life and work of C.G. Jung. There's a ton more out there - but much of it is oriented to people who are already pretty familiar with his... Resources and Additional Reading shawx001 2008-02-22T15:08:06-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/023810.html Compare these to James's closing chapter material: The 12 Steps and Principles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Honesty Step 1. We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. Hope Step 2. Came to believe that a power... Resources and Additional Reading shawx001 2008-03-03T13:55:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/024698.html Reading Questions Week #11 -- Finishing Shadow Culture, exploring web sites, and reading or skimming the Study Guide for What The Bleep Do We Know Prior to reading these (short, readable) chapters, take a look at the web sites (especially... Reading Questions shawx001 2008-03-20T15:51:12-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/024689.html Beyond A Course In Miracles: Channeling and Creating Our Own Reality Assignment: browse some of these sites (especially those with discussion questions following them in bold italic). At the end is the reflection question for you to write on. You... Reading Questions shawx001 2008-03-28T13:26:19-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/075488.html Reading assignment for this session: OPTIONAL reading is the e-mail attachment I send out - it is three articles on the material we discussed last week. The third article is fairly long - if you are interested, I recommend reading... Final Reading Reflections shawx001 2008-04-04T12:21:34-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shawx001/RelPsy/024978.html Read these critiques and responses in preparation for watching the movie in Session #14. Also glance over the Bleep Study Guide again. NOTE: No reading reflection this time - the questions below and the ones at the very end are... Reading Questions shawx001 2008-04-11T15:56:39-06:00