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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Versluis, Arthur (1959-....)
Titre(s) : American gurus [Texte imprimé] : from American transcendentalism to new age religion / Arthur Versluis
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : viii, 297 pages ; 25 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; Nineteenth-century enlightenments ; Revivalism, romanticism, and
the protestant principle ; The sage of concord ; Emerson and platonism ; The Concord
School and American platonism ; Walt Whitman's cosmic consciousness ; Enlightened
literature ; American 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 ; 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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 that
a characteristic feature of the Western esoteric tradition is the claim that every
person can achieve "spontaneous, direct, unmediated spiritual insight." This claim
was articulated with special clarity by the New England Transcendentalists Bronson
Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Versluis explores Transcendentalism, Walt Whitman,
the Beat movement, Timothy Leary, and the New Age movement to shed light on the emergence
of the contemporary American guru." -- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Gourous -- États-Unis
Maîtres spirituels -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199368136 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0199368139 (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780199368143 (erroné) (ebook) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438841454
Notice n° :
FRBNF43884145
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