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Still bored in a culture of entertainment : rediscovering passion and wonder / Richard Winter.

By: Winter, Richard, 1945-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2002Description: 160 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0830823085 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Boredom -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Christian lifeDDC classification: 241/.3
Contents:
Three yawns for boredom! -- Basics of boredom : under-stimulation, repetition, and disconnection -- Two types of boredom : the long and the short of it -- Entertained to excess : leisure, over-stimulation, and the entertainment industry -- Advertised to apathy : the stimulation and disappointment of desire -- Why some people are more likely to get bored : perception, personality, and proneness -- Negated to numbness : anxiety, disappointment, and emotional shutdown -- A trip back in time : medieval boredom, melancholy, and grief -- From sin to self-fulfillment : religion, the right to happiness, and lack of inner resources -- Haunted by hopelessness : postmodernism, indifference, and the loss of meaning -- The bitter fruits of boredom -- Counteracting boredom or six easy steps to an exciting, never-bored-again life! -- Not so easy, not so fast : some foundational themes of life -- Why get up in the morning? : boredom and the battle.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-156) and indexes.

Three yawns for boredom! -- Basics of boredom : under-stimulation, repetition, and disconnection -- Two types of boredom : the long and the short of it -- Entertained to excess : leisure, over-stimulation, and the entertainment industry -- Advertised to apathy : the stimulation and disappointment of desire -- Why some people are more likely to get bored : perception, personality, and proneness -- Negated to numbness : anxiety, disappointment, and emotional shutdown -- A trip back in time : medieval boredom, melancholy, and grief -- From sin to self-fulfillment : religion, the right to happiness, and lack of inner resources -- Haunted by hopelessness : postmodernism, indifference, and the loss of meaning -- The bitter fruits of boredom -- Counteracting boredom or six easy steps to an exciting, never-bored-again life! -- Not so easy, not so fast : some foundational themes of life -- Why get up in the morning? : boredom and the battle.

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