CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

	Introduction: Reflections on Regimes of Happiness
	Bryan S. Turner and Yuri Contreras-Vejar
Part IHappiness in the West
Chapter One	A Fragment of Bliss: Augustinian Beatitudo and the Ideal of Atonement
	Yuri Contreras-Vejar
Chapter Two	Arts of Happiness and Love: Translating Aristotle in the Later Middle Ages
	Jessica Rosenfeld
Chapter Three	Spiritual Transcendence as the Path to Happiness in a Selection of Old French Texts
	Stephanie Grace Petinos
Chapter Four	On Machiavelli, St. Francis and the Pursuit of Happiness
	William J. Connell
Chapter Five	Their Idea of Happiness Prevents Easy Categorization of Scottish Enlightenment Philosophers
	Megan Hills
Chapter Six	A Path to Eternal Happiness: Convent Life in the United States in the Nineteenth Century
	Bernadette McCauley
Chapter Seven	“Be Joyful Always!”: Twenty-First-Century Evangelical Conceptions of Happiness and Trumpist Politics
	Joanna Tice Jen
Chapter Eight	The Erasmus Program: The Promise of European Happiness
	Davide Giuseppe Colasanto
Chapter Nine	Innovations in the Psychological Study of Happiness: From Mirror Neurons to Mobile Technology
	Samantha Birk, Samantha Denefrio and Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary
Part IIComparative Perspectives
Chapter Ten	And You Should Be Nothing but Happy: Judaism and the Dual Approach to Joy
	Marc Katz
Chapter Eleven	Happiness in Medieval Islamicate Literature: Conceptual and Practical Problems
	Anna Akasoy
Chapter Twelve	From Liberation to Happiness: The Making of Modern, Middle-Class Yoga
	Shehzad Nadeem
Chapter Thirteen	The Pursuit of Happiness in Vietnam
	Oscar Salemink and Nguyê͂n Tuấn Anh
Chapter Fourteen	Indigenous and Western Views of Happiness: An Essay on the Politics of Contentment
	Colin Samson
Chapter Fifteen	A Nineteenth-Century Turning Point: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud and Mill
	Bryan S. Turner

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