Introduction: Why the Soul?
Richard K. Fenn
Part I: Soul-Loss and Ritual
1. Soul-Loss in Antiquity
Richard K. Fenn
2. Bedeviled
David Martin
Part II: Abuse and Soul-Loss
3. Whose Soul Is It Anyway? Domestic Tyranny and the Suffocated Soul
Bernice Martin
4. Soul-Loss and Sin: A Dance of Alienation
Susan L. Nelson
Part III: Professional Discourse without Soul
5. Soul Recovery through Remystification: Dostoyevski As a Challenger of Modern Psychology
Owe Wikstrom
6. Enrapt Spirits and the Melancholy: The Locus of Division in the Christian Self and American Society
Donald Capps
7. Soul-Loss and Religious Consolation in Two Lives
Susan Kwilecki
Part IV: Soul-Loss, the Decadence of Ritual, and Play
8. Soul-Loss, Sex Magic, and Taboos in Contemporary America: The Death of Rabbit Angstrom
Roger A. Johnson
9. Desire, Domination, and the Life and Death of the Soul
John McDargh
10. Soul-Loss Revisited
Richard K. Fenn
Index