Being Called: Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives

Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives

This unique book is an essential resource for interdisciplinary research and scholarship on the phenomenon of feeling called to a life path or vocation at the interface of science and religion.

• Offers religious, spiritual, scientific, and secular avenues of understanding experiences of calling

• Creates an opening for a new dialogue between psychology and spirituality

• Provides readers with sound, practical advice on how to find one's own calling or ideal direction in life in the modern world

• Includes contributions by well-known scholars and scientists such as Dr. Martin Seligman, who discovered learned helplessness and founded positive psychology; Dr. Andrew Newberg, who pioneered the neuroscience of spiritual experiences; and Dr. Ralph Hood, a renowned expert on mystical experiences