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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