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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- I POLITICAL AUTHORITY AND THE YOUNG -- II THE HOMELAND: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF CHILDREN -- III RELIGION AND NATIONALISM: NORTHERN IRELAND -- IV IDEOLOGY AND NATIONALISM: NICARAGUA -- V LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND NATIONALISM: FRENCH CANADA AND POLAND -- VI RACE AND NATIONALISM: SOUTH AFRICA -- VII CLASS AND NATIONALISM: BRAZIL AND THE UNITED STATES -- VIII EXILE AND NATIONALISM: CHILDREN OF SOUTHEAST ASIA -- IX POLITICAL MORALITY: THE HARD DREAM OF SURVIVAL -- NOTES -- INDEX

Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind. Interwoven into the story is Coles's personal quest for understand

Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Books by ROBERT COLES -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Method -- 2. Kinds of Service -- Social and Political Struggle -- Community Service -- Personal Gestures and Encounters -- Charity -- Religiously Sanctioned Action -- Government-Sanctioned Action -- Service to Country -- 3. Satisfactions -- Something Done, Someone Reac -- Moral Purpose -- Personal Affirmation -- Stoic Endurance -- A Boost to Success -- INTERLUDE - Mentoring -- 4. Hazards -- Weariness and Resignation -- Cynicism -- Arrogance, Anger, and Bitterness -- Despair -- Depression ("Burnout") -- 5. Doing and Learning -- 6. Young Idealism -- 7. Older Idealism -- INTERLUDE - What They Mean to Us -- 8. Consequences -- The Longer Run -- The Larger Realm -- Epilogue -- Back Matter -- Notes -- Index