Religious Studies, Theology, and Human Flourishing

Justin Thomas McDaniel is an Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Hector Kilgoe is a Doctoral Candidate of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Series Editor Foreword

Introduction: Aporias and Affordances: An Introduction to the Study of Religion, Theology, and Human Flourishing - Justin McDaniel

Part I: Aporias: Defining and Debating Religious Studies, Theology, and Positive Psychology

Chapter 1: Sometimes Pessimism Is Good for the Soul: Human Flourishing and a Plea for Complexity - Pamela Cooper-White
Chapter 2: Augustine of Hippo's Eudaemonic Counsel - Ellen Charry
Chapter 3: Discerning the Good Life: Theology and the Humanities - Matthew Croasmun

Part II: Affordances: New Ways of Teaching and Learning Religious Studies and Theology after the Eudaimonic Turn

Chapter 4: Sanmati, the Art of 'Generous Disposition': Flourishing Amidst Religious Difference - Leela Prasad
Chapter 5: Suffering, Joy, and Wonder: Turning toward the Fullness of Life - Mary Clark Moschella
Chapter 6: The Perfumed Life: Teaching a Humanities of Unsettling - Noah Salomon
Chapter 7: From the Head to the Heart: Rethinking Approaches to Teaching Buddhism at a Regional State University in the Bible Belt - Jeffrey Samuels
Chapter 8: Can 'Spiritual Fitness' be Bad for You?: Lessons from a Military Experiment - Steven Weitzman
Chapter 9: Lab Courses for the Humanities: Monastic Living and Existential Despair - Justin McDaniel

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