Henry C. Link (1889 - 1952) was a famous psycologist who was alienated from Christian belief for many years, but gradually went back again during his practice as a psycologist. This book reveals the story behind, and it quickly became a best-seller when it was first published in 1936. Its timeless relevance is truly evidenced by its many reprints up to our time.
قريت النسخة العربية منه ترجمة د ثروت عكاشة الكتاب جيد جدا بداخله الكثير من الافادة هو بيبعد شوية عن العنوان و بيدخل في علم النفس و بيشرح المؤلف سمات الشخصية و بيحكي عن مواقف حصلتله في العيادة الخاصة بيه لكن برغم كل الي في الكتاب وقفتني حاجة واحدة فيه جملة عابرة " عندما قام سيدنا موسي بتكسير الالواح" خلتني ادور عليها و عرفت الحكاية الي وراها كتاب كويس 170 صفحة تقريبا يخلص في يومين
كان هذا كتابا رائعا، قرأته مرات عديدة منذ الثانوية وحتى الكلية، بمعدل مرة كل إجازة صيف، ومرات كنت أطالع صفحات معينة أراجع بها عبارات كان ترن في أذني، ورغم أني لا أذكر منه شيئا الآن غير مضمونه، فإني فخور أن قرأته، وأتعجب أن يكون المترجم هو ثروت عكاشة الذي أقرأ الآن عنه أنه كان أحد الضباط الأحرار، لكن السيرة التي يحكيها خالد محيي الدين عنه في كتابه والآن أتكلم توحي بأنه كان مقدرا له أن يكون هذه الشخصية المثقفة الواعية، وأن يقوم بدور لم يقم به أحد من هؤلاء الضباط الذين تمسك من بقى منهم بالسلطة وحاربوا لأجلها، وضيعوا علينا فرصا عظيمة للرقي، وأنجبوا لنا قادة إنقلاب 30 يونيو 2013م. فيا ليت كان كل قادة إنقلاب يوليو 1952م مثل يوسف صديق أو مثل ثروت عكاشة.
Henry C. Link (1889-1952) was an early, modestly well-known, psychologist who, after receiving his PhD from Yale, spent most of his career doing personnel studies and market research for large corporations. Perhaps his most useful contribution to the field was mathematically proving that by sampling a carefully selected cross-section of 5000 people, a researcher could come within one percent of the result of polling the entire population.
Link was reared in an evangelical Methodist church but became an agnostic during his undergraduate years at a Methodist college. His “return to religion” was stimulated by a belief that being associated with a church was psychologically beneficial, as well as for other reasons that may strike 21st-century readers as odd. For instance, he said he attended church because he would rather lie in bed late on Sunday mornings, because going would please his parents and better influence his children, because he would have to greet people, “many of whom do not interest me in the least,” and because some of his best friends considered him a hypocrite for going. “I go, in short, because I hate to go and because I know that it will do me good.” (19)
In this brief work (which sold over 160,000 copies within two years of publication), Link opposes what he calls “introspection,” by which he means an overemphasis on bookishness and theoretical musings. He advocates participating in social life, perhaps by dancing or by playing bridge (one of his hobbies) rather than isolating oneself in solitary contemplation of serious books—including psychology, which he especially thought produced symptoms of “over-education.” (152) To find “the more abundant life,” Link recommended male patients join the CCC or even the Army. He took a dim view of New Deal liberals who believed that the federal government ought to provide for everyone’s material needs, and he argued that those who lacked emotional balance and who had failed to master their own social environments often became social workers who hastened to impose their own inferiority complex on society as a whole.
Much of the advice Link provides here is practical and sensible as well as politically conservative. Whether it has much to do with religion, I leave to the reader.
من اهم الكتب اللي لازم اي حد يقراها بيتكلم عن الدين من منظور عقلاني في احتياج الاتباع للدين و ليس احتياج الدين للاتباع و بيتكلم عن الشخصية الانبساطية _بنوع من انواع التمجيد المبالغ فيه_ و اهمية ان يكون الفرد جزء من جماعة و اضرار الاهتمام المبالغ فيه بالكتب و المعرفة العلمية فقط الترجمة جيدة و تعليقات المترجم اضافت للكتاب
The Return to Religion is a 20th century self-help book, the type of common sense advice give by a relative from the old country.
America and its people were coming out of the Great Depression when American psychologist, Henry Link published his 1936 book about how to build character within community. His advice: join a church. His argument is that introvertedness can be overcome through mutual social interactions, and happiness stems from the pursuit of a well-rounded life.
The best chapter is “Fools of Reason” where Link sharply critiques the country’s growing reliance on higher education and scientific achievement, and the growing tendency to ridicule faith, hard work, and simple living as a result. He argues that intellectual faculties needs to be grounded in unshakeable faith and values that logic cannot displace.
Most interestingly, Link is an agnostic Christian who fiercely defends the mystery of faith. His anecdotes and 20th century perspectives ring true today, as he says “more science only brings more confusion.” It’s also a reminder: the past isn’t so far away.
في هذا الكتاب يستعرض الطبيب الشهير رحلة عودته من الإلحاد إلى الإيمان، وبالنسبة لي فهذه محاولة إقناع للاستفادة من المميزات التي يمنحها التدين والمجتمع المتدين للفرد الذي ينتمي إليه ويظهر هذا الانتماء، أكثر من كونه إيماناً لمجرد الإيمان بالإله العظيم لذاته، لذلك شعرت أن الكاتب مستفز في أغلب الأحيان، وقد أعجبني أن أقرأ كتاباً ويتشكل لدي رد فعلٍ كهذا وأستمر بقراءته. ورغم أنه يتحدث عن الدين المسيحي إلا أنه قصد بشكل عام جميع الأديان بوصفها عنصراً أساسياً في تشكيل الشخصية الانبساطية للفرد وجعله عنصراً فاعلاً في مجتمعه، ومنعه من الاستغراق في ذاته وأنانيته.