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Intro
Introduction and Overview of Chapters
Chapter 1
Humanism, Religious and Secular: Charting Childhood and Humanistic Psychology
What is humanism?
'Innate goodness': the crucial link between positive humanism, religious humanism, and positive social science
Humanism's history: Our personal review
René Descartes
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow: Founders of modern humanistic psychology
Rollo May
Child-Centred Humanism
Carl Rogers
Children's rights
Abraham Maslow
The Social Contract
Thomas Hill Green, 1836 to 1882
Margaret Scotford Archer
Maslow, Kelly and Rogers
Five levels of "The Social Contract" involving reciprocal obligations and social relationships
Education and humanism
Quakers and the humanist education movement
Erik Erikson and the humanist journey
Behavioral psychology's translation to a humanist model
Conclusions
Chapter 2
Critical Realism and Autoethnography: A Review
Introduction: Autoethnography and self-other relationships
Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism: A model for social action and social change
Matthew Wilkinson: Dialectical Critical Realism and Islam
Margaret Scotford Archer
Critical Realism's Marxist dimension
Application of Critical Realism models in contrasted fields of research
Reflections on Critical Realism
Child-Centred Humanism (CCH): A guiding or underlabouring principal
Margaret Archer, Critical Realism and morphogenesis
Conclusions
The Children's Charter of Development Rights
Chapter 3
A Social Scientist's Journey from Quaker to Muslim: Developing A Theology for Social Action
Introduction and purpose
Islam in Europe today: The life of the Mosque
The experience of becoming Muslim
Three books of monotheism
The Qur'an
Fundamentalism and jihad
The prophets of Islam.
The message of prophet Jesus
Women and Islam
Islam and education
Islam as a minority group in the West: The plural society debate
Islam and non-violence
God's light shining
Challenges for Islam's peace-making and the journey on the straight path
Studies in social science
Studies in Gaza
Studies in Bangladesh
Studies in Pakistan
Conclusions
End Notes
Chapter 4
Explaining Evil in a World Where Humans are Motivated by a Spirit of Inward Goodness
The problem
Start with stable families, loving parents, and children who flourish
Secular scholars on 'human goodness'
Social structures and psychohistory: Ways to explain both good and evil in human affairs?
Goodness emerging from evil: Humanist accounts of the Holocaust by Etty Hillesum, Elie Wiesel, Eugene Heimler and Viktor Frankl
Etty Hillesum
Eugene Heimler
Elie Wiesel
Viktor Frankl
Learning to be empathic: Simon Baron-Cohen and transcending the evil of the Holocaust
Ending hatred: Goodness stemming from tragedy in Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of Palestinian and Israeli conflict
Mehnaz Afridi's Shoah Through Muslim Eyes: A story of empathy and tolerance
Ken Plummer's critical humanism, and 'the telling of stories'
The positive psychology movement: Overcoming evil by 'learning to be good'
Evil remains: But humanity can transcend evil
Conclusions
Chapter 5
The Retelling of Our Stories - Abraham Maslow, Religion and Human Transcendence
Beginning with Edward Said …
Varieties of religious experience: Their purpose and meaning
William James and modern research on religious experience
Benefits of being religious?
Abraham Maslow: The scholar of transcendence
Maslow's short but productive life, 1908 to 1970
In the master's footsteps
Maslow's well-known pyramid of human needs and their achievement.
Maslow and 'peak experiences'
Maslow, personality theory and 'the Big Five' (OCEAN) dimensions
Big Five personality profiles: Occupational success, Maslow and Islamic ideals
Developmental pathways: Overcoming early disadvantage in achieving self-actualization and beyond
Scott Barry Kaufman's transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization (2020)
In the master's footsteps …
Interpreting Maslow's ideas for human service and management professionals
Applying Maslowian principles in human service and health care
Conclusions
General References and Bibliography
Index.
Introduction and Overview of Chapters
Chapter 1
Humanism, Religious and Secular: Charting Childhood and Humanistic Psychology
What is humanism?
'Innate goodness': the crucial link between positive humanism, religious humanism, and positive social science
Humanism's history: Our personal review
René Descartes
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow: Founders of modern humanistic psychology
Rollo May
Child-Centred Humanism
Carl Rogers
Children's rights
Abraham Maslow
The Social Contract
Thomas Hill Green, 1836 to 1882
Margaret Scotford Archer
Maslow, Kelly and Rogers
Five levels of "The Social Contract" involving reciprocal obligations and social relationships
Education and humanism
Quakers and the humanist education movement
Erik Erikson and the humanist journey
Behavioral psychology's translation to a humanist model
Conclusions
Chapter 2
Critical Realism and Autoethnography: A Review
Introduction: Autoethnography and self-other relationships
Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism: A model for social action and social change
Matthew Wilkinson: Dialectical Critical Realism and Islam
Margaret Scotford Archer
Critical Realism's Marxist dimension
Application of Critical Realism models in contrasted fields of research
Reflections on Critical Realism
Child-Centred Humanism (CCH): A guiding or underlabouring principal
Margaret Archer, Critical Realism and morphogenesis
Conclusions
The Children's Charter of Development Rights
Chapter 3
A Social Scientist's Journey from Quaker to Muslim: Developing A Theology for Social Action
Introduction and purpose
Islam in Europe today: The life of the Mosque
The experience of becoming Muslim
Three books of monotheism
The Qur'an
Fundamentalism and jihad
The prophets of Islam.
The message of prophet Jesus
Women and Islam
Islam and education
Islam as a minority group in the West: The plural society debate
Islam and non-violence
God's light shining
Challenges for Islam's peace-making and the journey on the straight path
Studies in social science
Studies in Gaza
Studies in Bangladesh
Studies in Pakistan
Conclusions
End Notes
Chapter 4
Explaining Evil in a World Where Humans are Motivated by a Spirit of Inward Goodness
The problem
Start with stable families, loving parents, and children who flourish
Secular scholars on 'human goodness'
Social structures and psychohistory: Ways to explain both good and evil in human affairs?
Goodness emerging from evil: Humanist accounts of the Holocaust by Etty Hillesum, Elie Wiesel, Eugene Heimler and Viktor Frankl
Etty Hillesum
Eugene Heimler
Elie Wiesel
Viktor Frankl
Learning to be empathic: Simon Baron-Cohen and transcending the evil of the Holocaust
Ending hatred: Goodness stemming from tragedy in Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of Palestinian and Israeli conflict
Mehnaz Afridi's Shoah Through Muslim Eyes: A story of empathy and tolerance
Ken Plummer's critical humanism, and 'the telling of stories'
The positive psychology movement: Overcoming evil by 'learning to be good'
Evil remains: But humanity can transcend evil
Conclusions
Chapter 5
The Retelling of Our Stories - Abraham Maslow, Religion and Human Transcendence
Beginning with Edward Said …
Varieties of religious experience: Their purpose and meaning
William James and modern research on religious experience
Benefits of being religious?
Abraham Maslow: The scholar of transcendence
Maslow's short but productive life, 1908 to 1970
In the master's footsteps
Maslow's well-known pyramid of human needs and their achievement.
Maslow and 'peak experiences'
Maslow, personality theory and 'the Big Five' (OCEAN) dimensions
Big Five personality profiles: Occupational success, Maslow and Islamic ideals
Developmental pathways: Overcoming early disadvantage in achieving self-actualization and beyond
Scott Barry Kaufman's transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization (2020)
In the master's footsteps …
Interpreting Maslow's ideas for human service and management professionals
Applying Maslowian principles in human service and health care
Conclusions
General References and Bibliography
Index.