American Gurus: From Transcendentalism to New Age Religion

By the early twenty-first century, a phenomenon that once was inconceivable had become nearly commonplace in American society: the public spiritual teacher who neither belongs to, nor is authorized by a major religious tradition. From the Oprah Winfrey-endorsed Eckhart Tolle to figures like Gangaji...

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Main Author: Versluis, Arthur (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2014
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505 8 0 |a Cover; American Gurus; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; PART ONENineteenth-Century Enlightenments; 2 Revivalism, Romanticism, and the Protestant Principle; 3 The Sage of Concord; 4 Emerson and Platonism; 5 The Concord School of Philosophy and American Platonism; 6 Walt Whitman's Cosmic Consciousness; PART TWOEnlightened Literature; 7 American (Literary) Spiritual Teachers; 8 Beat Religion and the Choice; 9 Enter Psychedelics; 10 Dogmas, Catmas, and Spiritual Anarchism; 11 Oh, Ho, Ho, It's Magic......; 12 Spiritual Anarchy, Tantra, and Islamic Heterodoxy; 13 On the Counterculture 
505 8 0 |a PART THREEAmerican Gurus14 From Europe to America; 15 Varieties of Modern American Mysticism; 16 The Sage on the Stage; 17 The American Guru Enters, Stage Left; 18 The Immediatist Wave; 19Conclusions; Notes; Index 
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