The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Lights and Shadows -- Part I: God Shed His Grace -- Section 1: Divine and Devilish Things -- One. The Metaphysical Cotton Mather -- Two. Jonathan Edwards: Latter-Day Puritan and Metaphysician -- Section 2: Supernatural and Natural -- Three. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Sup...

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Auteur principal: Albanese, Catherine L. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2023
Dans:Année: 2023
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B USA / Religion / Effort / Bonne vie / Métaphysique / Spiritualité
Sujets non-standardisés:B Metaphysics
B Electronic books
Accès en ligne: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Édition parallèle:Électronique
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Résumé:Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Lights and Shadows -- Part I: God Shed His Grace -- Section 1: Divine and Devilish Things -- One. The Metaphysical Cotton Mather -- Two. Jonathan Edwards: Latter-Day Puritan and Metaphysician -- Section 2: Supernatural and Natural -- Three. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Supernatural Naturalist -- Four. Horace Bushnell: Natural Supernaturalist -- Part II: The Fruited Plain -- Section 3: Commercial and Un-Unitarian Times -- Five. Albert Brisbane and the Metempsychosis of Sex -- Six. Andrew Jackson Davis and the Matter of Sex and Spirit -- Section 4: Physic and Metaphysic -- Seven. Warren Felt Evans: From Methodism to Mind Cure -- Eight. William James: From Anatomy to the Science of Spirit -- Section 5: Purses, Profits, and Future Pefect -- Nine. Minding Money and Market: Emma Curtis Hopkins and Elizabeth Towne -- Ten. Arcanes of Prosperity: The Multiverses of William Walker Atkinson -- Eleven. Channeling Delight and Destiny: The Coming of Seth and Abraham -- Afterword: And Crowned Thy Good? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
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ISBN:0226823342