American gurus : from transcendentalism to new age religion

American gurus : from transcendentalism to new age religion / Arthur Versluis.

"By the early twenty-first century, a phenomenon that once was inconceivable had become nearly commonplace in American society: the American public spiritual teacher who does not belong to, or at least, is not authorized by a major religious tradition. From Eckhart Tolle and Andrew Cohen to fig...

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Main Author: Versluis, Arthur, 1959- (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Religious leaders > United States.
Religion
Religious leaders
United States > Religion > History.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • part 1. Nineteenth-century enlightenments. Revivalism, romanticism, and the Protestant principle
  • The sage of Concord
  • Emerson and Platonism
  • The Concord school of philosophy and American Platonism
  • Walt Whitman's cosmic consciousness
  • part 2. Enlightened literature. American (literary) spiritual teachers
  • Beat religion and the choice
  • Enter psychedelics
  • Dogmas, catmas, and spiritual anarchism
  • Oh, ho, ho, it's magic ...
  • Spiritual anarchy, tantra, and Islamic heterodoxy
  • On the counterculture
  • part 3. American gurus. From Europe to America
  • Varieties of modern American mysticism
  • The sage on the stage
  • The American guru enters, stage left
  • The immediatist wave
  • Conclusions.

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