Hester Elsa Oberman

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• 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. E. (2018). Trauma, Place, and Transformation. Archive for the Psychology of Religion.
• 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...

Reviews

• Oberman, H. E. (2020. Oberman Review of Clydesdale and Garces-Folley Twentysomething Soul(p. 4). online published in Religion, Volume 51 Issue 1.
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  Clydesdale and Garces-Foley offer a wealth of granular data on Americantwentysomethings’ religious and secular lives. The Twentysomething Soul is written for ministers and leaders in the church on religious-affiliated young adults, yet the most significant insights stem from those outside the church, those who do not affiliate with religious institutions and beliefs. What will happen to the Nones in the future will impact our understanding of all religious life in America and for scholars beyond the confines of any one belief system.

Others

• Oberman, H. E. (2014, October). Mind and Morality: Where do they Meet?. online invitation. http://www.humansandnature.org/mind-and-morality--where-do-they-meet--question-14.php
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  The mind is a frontier for exploring what it means to be human. What can we draw from science, lived experience, and contemplative practice to get a better glimpse into the mosaic of our minds? Join the online conversation and share your thoughts on the relationship between our moral lives and the interworking of our minds.