Series Editor Foreword Introduction: Aporias and Affordances: An Introduction to the Study of Religion, Theology, and Human Flourishing - Justin McDaniel Part I: Aporias: Defining and Debating Religious Studies, Theology, and Positive Psychology Chapter 1: Sometimes Pessimism Is Good for the Soul: Human Flourishing and a Plea for Complexity - Pamela Cooper-White Chapter 2: Augustine of Hippo's Eudaemonic Counsel - Ellen Charry Chapter 3: Discerning the Good Life: Theology and the Humanities - Matthew Croasmun Part II: Affordances: New Ways of Teaching and Learning Religious Studies and Theology after the Eudaimonic Turn Chapter 4: Sanmati, the Art of 'Generous Disposition': Flourishing Amidst Religious Difference - Leela Prasad Chapter 5: Suffering, Joy, and Wonder: Turning toward the Fullness of Life - Mary Clark Moschella Chapter 6: The Perfumed Life: Teaching a Humanities of Unsettling - Noah Salomon Chapter 7: From the Head to the Heart: Rethinking Approaches to Teaching Buddhism at a Regional State University in the Bible Belt - Jeffrey Samuels Chapter 8: Can 'Spiritual Fitness' be Bad for You?: Lessons from a Military Experiment - Steven Weitzman Chapter 9: Lab Courses for the Humanities: Monastic Living and Existential Despair - Justin McDaniel Index

Justin Thomas McDaniel is an Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Hector Kilgoe is a Doctoral Candidate of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Selling point: Highlights religious studies pedagogy and practical theology/pastoral care in relation to well-being Selling point: Brings together perspectives that center several different religious traditions and communities Selling point: Critiques positive psychology's understanding of religion studies