R. Michael Fisher

The Marianne Williamson Presidential Phenomenon (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural (R)Evolution in a Dangerous Time

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The most important national election in U.S. history is underway. Marianne Williamson stepped-up to show she is confident to be president of the United States in 2020. She had to step down. Many people are supportive of her provocative healing vision for America, and that fan and voter-base is growing. She may run again in 2024. However, many are puzzled by her and many are critics on the Left and Right and in between. The book is a thorough case study of Williamson's speeches, writings, and interviews. It documents and analyzes the thoughts and feelings of her supporters and critics based on what they have written, performed, and published. It records history while it is being made. The author offers support and criticism of how Williamson's leadership and her team could have done things different so as to be more successful in the presidential campaign. The big idea throughout the book is to emphasize, as does Williamson's teaching, that spirituality and politics ought never be separated completely (as religion and the State), if we truly desire more than mere reforms of society, but desire a transformation to a truly better and more liberated world. The book highlights productive guideposts for Williamson and other leaders like Williamson in future campaigns. It offers Americans, and others, a view of "what happened" in 2019-20 that made Williamson an outstanding phenomenon. Students, scholars, journalists, politicians, and the general public interested in the improvement of politics will want to study this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433179648
• Artikelnr.: 61295269

Autorenporträt

R. Michael Fisher, Ph.D. is an artist-educator, philosopher, and fearologist, currently on faculty at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. He specializes in holistic human development. His major tome is The World's Fearlessness Teachings: A Critical Integral Approach to Fear Management/Education for the 21st Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments - Foreword by Rob Asghar - Preface - Introduction - The Donald Trump Phenomenon - The Marianne Williamson Phenomenon - A Spiritual (R)Evolution Enters Politics - Donald Trump as Bad or as Evil? - Systems Thinking Correction: Transformation of I and We - She's Missing 'The Right' Six Words - Some Lessons - Index.

Rezensionen

"Marianne Williamson reached hundreds of thousands of people with her books, lectures, and workshops since her rise to prominence in the 1990s. Since declaring her bid for the presidency of the US she has reached millions. Not all were eager listeners but many heard her enduring message. Dr. Fisher has made a case study of her "transformational" leadership, arguing (critically at times) that the key to her success was an ability to meet fear fearlessly. Why does her message resonate now in just the way it does? Why is there such tension between those who want to push her away, call her a flake, avoid the obvious and real spiritual implications of our present politics? And how can Williamson balance her other-worldly discipline with her transformational leadership? Dr. Fisher is probably the world's leading expert on the effects of fear and its antidotes, and here he takes an unflinching look at how fear has warped and twisted us, and how we can be transformed by such figures as Williamson. As he indicates, it is very important, at this moment, not only to understand what is happening, but to remember and document for the future what this moment was for those who lived it. Yet, there is more than memory in these pages. This is also about what kind of future we can hope for, in contrast to what we will get if we do not learn to face our fears, and face them down." -Randall Auxier, Ph.D., Author of Time, Will, and Purpose: Living Ideas from the Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Professor of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale