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Michael Scott Alexander is associate professor of religious studies and Maimonides Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Jazz Age Jews (2001), winner of the National Jewish Book Award.
A brilliant exploration of religious and spiritual experiences as they relate to the ability to heal the mind and promote psychological health. A missing piece of the puzzle of how religion intersects with psychological wellbeing. -- Andrew Newberg, author of <i>Neurotheology: How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality</i> What if the classics of religious thought actually made you feel ... better? In this stunning, accessible book, Michael Alexander -the most chill professor you never had -shows that the greatest minds of the past were deeply attuned to the crises of the present, mid-life and otherwise. Their solutions, and his, map a path through the dark wood of our lives to the promised land of human flourishing. -- Noah Feldman, author of <i>Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem -and What We Should Do About It</i>
