The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion by Tacey, David

Paperback / softback. New. The twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the twentieth century was Freud's. Jung predicted the demise of secular humanism and claimed we would search for alternatives to science, atheism and reason. We would experience a new and even unfashionable appetite for the sacred. Educated people, however, would not return to unreconstructed religions, because these do not express the life of the spirit as discerned by modern consciousness. The sacred has developed a darker hue, and worshipping symbols of light and goodness no longer satisfies the longings of the soul. The new sacred cannot be contained by the formulas of the past, but nor can we live without a sense of the sacred. We stand in a difficult place: between traditional religions we have outgrown and a pervasive materialism we can no longer embrace. These changes in our culture have come sooner than Jung might have imagined. In his time Jung struck many as eccentric or unscientific. But… Read More

Routledge, 2013. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 9.25x6.26x0.39 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book provides a critical overview of Jung’s vision of the spiritual situation of our time, which moves across psychology, spirituality, religion and sociology simultaneously.

Paperback / softback. New.

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Routledge, 2013. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 9.25x6.26x0.39 inches.

Routledge. Paperback. New. 9x6x0.