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1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-291) and index. |
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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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Print version record. |
| Summary |
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 and Adhyashanti, there are now countless spiritual teachers who claim and teach variants of instant or immediate enlightenment. American Gurus tells the story of how this phenomenon emerged. Through an examination of the broader literary and religious context of the subject, Arthur Versluis shows th. |
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United States -- Religion -- History.
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Religious leaders -- United States.
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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RELIGION -- Leadership.
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Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
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Religious leaders. (OCoLC)fst01094109
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Print version: Versluis, Arthur, 1959- American gurus 9780199368136 (DLC) 2013033755 (OCoLC)866563765 |
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9780199368143 (electronic bk.) |
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0199368147 (electronic bk.) |
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