Versluis shows how the convergence of Asian religions and Western mysticism produce the contemporary phenomenon of "spontaneously enlightened" gurus in America.
Versluis shows how the convergence of Asian religions and Western mysticism produce the contemporary phenomenon of "spontaneously enlightened" gurus in America.
Arthur Versluis, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Professor in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University, holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has published numerous books and articles. Versluis was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Germany, and is the founding editor of Esoterica, and co-editor of JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism. He is the founding president of the Association for the Study of Esotericism.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction Nineteenth-Century Enlightenments 2. Revivalism, Romanticism, and the Protestant Principle 3. The Sage of Concord 4. Emerson and Platonism 5. The Concord School and American Platonism 6. Walt Whitman's Cosmic Consciousness Enlightened Literature 7. American 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 American Gurus 14. 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 19. Conclusions
1. Introduction Nineteenth-Century Enlightenments 2. Revivalism, Romanticism, and the Protestant Principle 3. The Sage of Concord 4. Emerson and Platonism 5. The Concord School and American Platonism 6. Walt Whitman's Cosmic Consciousness Enlightened Literature 7. American 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 American Gurus 14. 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 19. Conclusions
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