Hester Elsa Oberman

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• Oberman, H. E. (2014). A Postmodern Perspective on Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion: Bridging Humanities and Scientific Views of Religion in the Twenty-first Century. In Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age(pp 690-714). ISBN 9783110360875: De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston.
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  The awareness that spirituality is an essential component of all human life is not new. Present already with medieval mystics and early modern, what we believe is an integrative part of the body-brain connection. However, the power of belief is as it were being re-discovered in the age of neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Tracing the birth of psychology and its changing relation to religion and spirituality, this final chapter in the edited volume Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age provides a postmodern perspective of where we are now in the twenty-first century regarding religion, spirituality, and mental health.

Journals/Publications

• Oberman, H. (2022). Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions: Jeff Levin, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2020, xv + 324 pp., US$34,95 (hardback) ISBN 9780190867355. Religion, 1-4. doi:10.1080/0048721x.2022.2146428
• Oberman, H. (2021). The Twenty-Something Soul: Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults: by Tim Clydesdale and Kathleen Garces-Foley, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, xi + 242 pp., US$29.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 1909 3135 3. Religion, 51(1), 157-160. doi:10.1080/0048721x.2020.1839323
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  Religion among twentysomethings is akin to the polar ice cap: there is plenty of ice now and likely will be for years to come, but the melt rate is rising, and if sustained, the long-term impact wi...