[New Thought]

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ABSTRACT

In this study we try to explore the concept of New Thought in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on religion and its relation with God. The research also analyzes many aspects of new thought and tries to gauge its effect on man. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for new thought and tries to describe the overall effect of new thought on people

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT4

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION6

Background of the study6

Problem Statement7

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW8

Theoretical framework8

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY - N/A10

CHAPTER 4: DESCRIPTION OF FINDINGS11

CHAPTER 06: CONCLUSION22

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

Movement "New Thought" is a consistent movement of a set of religious ideas which broke out in the United States of America in the late nineteenth century by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. New thought's other masters include Emma Curtis Hopkins and others in the same way. Followers of the New Thought also find inspiration in the philosophy of Transcendentalism, developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson and other thinkers of the same way the in United States of America in the nineteenth century (Arnold 2005 12) .

New Thought religions generally believe in the presence of a creative energy or God within all and equality for all, which greatly enhances positive thinking, self-affirmations, meditation and prayers in the same way. The gist and core preaching objective of New Thought was that vivid thought process unwinds and evolves and in the same way a person's brain process creates and modifies the experience in this world. The movement stresses severely upon positive thinking, self-affirmation, meditation and prayer. Churches revolving around the context of New Thought tend to avoid dogmatic pronouncements about life after death (the Hereafter) and other theological issues.

"New Thought" is a term used to describe the idea of growth or of thought. In this context, the word "New" must be greatly enhanced, since of course the expression "New Thought" speaks of that what is new and equally progressive. New Thought practitioners accept and adopt the same infinite transformation, while simultaneously giving due weight to creative thinking. (Aslan 2006 155)

Problem Statement

The topic New Thought was selected because the true relation with God is what is explained by the philosophy of new thought. The study highlights the importance of the New Thought belief.

It would be wrong to apply the term "New Thought" to a finite system of thought since, of course during the period in which thought is shaped and equally coupled to a system, it stops being new. Also during the period in which a system of thought and reaches ...