The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (91 page)

self-creation,
39
,
64

self-discovery,
354
,
377

self-esteem,
415
,
445

self-help manuals/books,
435
,
438
,
443

self-interest,
131
,
480

self-knowledge,
122
,
269
,
408

self-mastery,
351
,
362
.
See also
self-realization

self-realization,
68
,
131
,
204
,
349
,
351
,
358
–59,
368

self-respect,
519
,
521
,
548
,
549

self-understanding,
255
,
256
,
302
,
336
,
337
,
352
–55,
526
,
528

selfish gene,
548

selfishness,
453
,
489

Sennett, Richard,
533
–34

sense.
See
common sense

senses/sensation,
129
,
169
,
234
,
340
,
414
,
419
,
462

Seurat, Georges,
111
,
113
–14,
115
,
119

Seventh-Day Adventists,
178

sex:

children and,
284
,
308
,
356
,
357

counterculture and,
411
,
414
,
424
,
427

fear and,
543

in 1920s,
241

as “peak experience,” 414

See also
erotic;
specific person’s views

shadow culture, American,
177
–79

Shakers,
177

Shakespeare, William,
155
,
165
,
266
,
268
,
291
,
453
,
475
,
533

shamanism,
177
,
422

shared fictions: of James (Henry),
133
–35,
235
,
294

Shattuck, Roger,
122
–24,
125

Shaw, George Bernard,
44
,
99
–105,
128
,
136
,
164
,
166
,
170
,
251
,
268
,
537

Shaw, George Bernard—works by:

Androcles and the Lion,
104

Back to Methuselah,
101,
103
,
104

Candida,
103

Don Juan,
102

Heartbreak House,
100

Major Barbara,
103–4

Man and Superman,
101

Pygmalion,
99

The Quintessence of Ibsenism,
99

Sheen, Monsignor Fulton,
362
,
366

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
150
,
465

Shestov, Lev,
206
,
207
–8

Simmel, Georg,
37
,
42

simultanism,
126

sin:

children and,
356

“Crisis Theology” and,
312

desire and,
543

Jewish views about,
375

original,
309
,
316
,
318
,
320
,
350
,
356
,
368
,
389

See also
specific person’s views

singing,
230
–31,
232
,
550
,
551
.
See also
music

situation ethics,
366
–67,
477

Six-Day War,
378
,
379

Sobornost,
206–9

social contract,
503

social Darwinism,
51
,
323
,
489

social science,
351
,
481
,
483
–85,
488

social service, religion of,
192

socialism:

and Bolshevik crusade,
200
–219

nationalism and,
200

and Nietzsche’s popularity,
52

occult and,
179

patriotism and,
200

as religion of labor,
209

Scythians and,
212
–13

utopian,
178
,
204
,
211

World War I and,
193

See also
specific person’s views

Society for Conservation Biology,
483

Society for God Knowledge,
324

Society for Psychical Research,
180

sociobiology,
479
,
480

sociology, religion as,
11
–13,
15
,
17
,
21

Socrates,
24
,
516
,
517

solitude,
121
,
436

soul,
89
,
122
,
168
,
191
–92,
274
,
322
,
366
,
485
–86.
See also
specific person’s views

Soulé, Michael E.,
483

“speaking in tongues,” 14

Spencer, Herbert,
24
,
75
,
167

Spender, Stephen,
268
–69

Spengler, Oswald,
34
,
315
–16

Spiegelberg, Frederic,
413
–14

Spinoza, Baruch,
295
,
436

spirit/spirituality:

in art,
180
–84

counterculture and,
411
,
412
,
413
,
415
,
417
–18,
420
,
424
,
428
,
429

cruelty and,
212

distress of,
92

drugs and,
441
,
442

elitism of,
77
–80

energy as form of,
184

as giving credibility to Christianity,
197

and growth of occult,
179

health and,
15

Marxism and,
211

middle-class,
253
–54

minimalism and,
393

occult and,
180

postmodernism and,
499
,
500

poverty,
394

recession of,
18
–19,
21

shadow culture and,
178
–79

theosophy and,
168
–69

Unitarians and,
324

value of,
92
–97

World War I and,
190
,
192
,
196

See also
religion;
specific person’s views

Spock, Benjamin,
356
–58,
360

spontaneity, culture of:

Abstract Expressionism and,
394
,
397
–400

aftermath of World War II and,
387

“beat” writing and,
394
,
403
–6

clay pottery and,
394
,
402
–3

criticisms of,
405
–6

dance and,
394
,
400
–402

improvisation and,
395
–97

jazz/bebop and,
394
,
395
–97

kinetic knowledge and,
400
–402

plasticity and,
397
–400

and restrictions on the ego,
393
–95

unconscious and,
119

See also
specific person

St. Peter’s Church (Zurich): Frisch memorial service in,
2
–3

St. Petersburg Religious-Philosophical Society,
206
,
212

Stalin, Joseph,
187
,
206
,
215
,
216
,
219
,
346
,
372
,
381
–82,
388

Standing Commission on Religious Questions,
215

Steiner, George,
58
n,
453
,
454
–56,
460
,
539
,
540
,
552
,
554

Steiner, Rudolf,
174
,
182
,
212
,
280
,
311
,
318
,
323

Stella, Frank,
391

Stevens, Wallace,
66
,
136
,
176
,
244
–49,
458
,
464
,
524
,
536
,
539
–40,
547
,
554

Stewart, H. L.,
187
–88

Stoics,
391

Stott, Rebecca,
551
–52

Strachey, Lytton,
79
,
303

Stravinsky, Igor,
180
–81,
190
,
396

Strindberg, Johan August,
91
,
97
–99

Stromberg, Roland,
190
,
191
,
193

subconscious,
59
,
124
,
125
,
352

subjectivity,
399
,
507
–8,
511
–12

“sublime if painful,” Nietzsche’s,
49

submission: Musil’s views about,
235

subtraction theory, Taylor’s,
6
,
17
,
22
,
428
,
457

suffering/pain:

God as,
376

heroism and,
268

as identity,
445

Jewish views about,
373
,
374
,
375
,
379

naming and,
463

and rationality of religion,
526

See also
specific person’s views

Sufis,
48

Superman,
34
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
209
,
212
,
214
,
253
,
320

supernatural,
63
,
199
,
204
,
385
–86.
See also
specific person’s views

Suprematism, Malevich’s views about,
210
,
211

surrealism,
197
–99,
395
,
397

survival of the fittest,
517

Swedenborg, Emanuel,
99
,
169

Swedenborgianism,
177

Swinburne, Algernon,
467
,
468

Swir, Anna,
449
,
457
–58

symbols/symbolism,
121
,
149
,
151
,
152
,
164
,
206
,
419
,
429
,
430

T-groups,
415

Tavistock Clinic,
388

Taylor, Charles,
5
–7,
17
,
18
,
21
,
29
,
58
n,
148
,
428
,
433
,
437
,
457
,
546
,
550

Taylor, Eugene,
177
,
178
–79

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich,
112

technology,
110
,
117
,
193
,
210
,
213
,
215
,
428
,
429
,
499
.
See also
specific person’s views

teleology,
4
,
509
,
510

Temple, William,
333

Tennyson, Alfred Lord,
180

theology:

German renaissance in,
311
–13

physics as form of,
492
–95

religion without,
480
–81

Theosophical Society,
168
,
172
,
180

theosophy,
167
–69,
178
,
180
,
181
–84,
197
,
287

theothanatology,
381
–86

therapy:

and beliefs,
446

and certainty,
446

children and,
443

counterculture and,
410
–11,
413
,
415
–16,
429
,
437
–38

demystification of,
364

happiness and,
437
–39,
443
–47

and identity,
445
,
446

and meaning,
446

self-,
446

self-realization as integral to,
368

See also
counseling; pastoral psychology/counseling; psychoanalysis/psychotherapy;
specific person’s views

“thingness,” 73–75

Thompson, Hunter S.,
421
,
424

Thoreau, Henry David,
177

Thorndike, Edward,
56
–57

Tille, Alexander,
51
–52

Tillich, Paul,
58
n,
366
–67,
383
,
385
,
413
,
420
,
514

Tipler, Frank,
492
,
493
,
494
,
495
,
506
,
544

Tolstoy, Leo,
43
,
102
,
106
,
107
,
206
,
207
,
208
,
211
,
227
,
228
,
453