The Oriental Religions and American Thought
Author: Carl T. Jackson
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 328
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Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Walter H. Conser
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780820319186
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ten essays in this volume explore the vast diversity of religions in the United States, from Judaic, Catholic, and African American to Asian, Muslim, and Native American traditions. Chapters on religion and the South, religion and gender, indigenous sectarian religious movements, and the metaphysical tradition round out the collection. The contributors examine the past, present, and future of American religion, first orienting readers to historiographic trends and traditions of interpretation in each area, then providing case studies to show their vision of how these areas should be developed. Full of provocative insights into the complexity of American religion, this volume helps us better understand America's religious history and its future challenges and directions.
Author: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Publisher:
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 434
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, author Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a philosopher and former President of India, describes leading ideas of Indian philosophy and religion. He traces the probable influence of Indian mysticism on Greek thought and Christian development, through Alexandrian Judaism, Christian Gnosticism, and Neo-Platonism. Radhakrishnan argues that Christianity arose out of an eastern background, became wedded to Graeco-Latin culture, and will find rebirth in a renewed alliance with this Eastern heritage--From publisher description.
Author: Robert C. Fuller
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780195146806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fuller traces the history of alternative spiritual practices in America including astrology, Transcendentalism, and channeling.
Author: Arthur Versluis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0195076583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arthur Versluis offers a comprehensive study of the relationship between the American Transcendentalists and Asian religions. He argues that an influx of new information about these religions shook nineteenth-century American religious consciousness to the core. With the publication of ever more material on Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, the Judeo-Christian tradition was inevitably placed as just one among a number of religious traditions. Fundamentalists and conservatives denounced this influx as a threat, but the Transcendentalists embraced it, poring over the sacred books of Asia to extract ethical injunctions, admonitions to self-transcendence, myths taken to support Christian doctrines, and manifestations of a supposed coming universal religion.
Author: Jane Iwamura
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-01-14
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780199792856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Saffron-robed monks and long-haired gurus have become familiar characters on the American popular culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. Encounters with monks, gurus, bhikkhus, sages, sifus, healers, and masters from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and religious traditions provided initial engagements with Asian spiritual traditions. Virtual Orientalism shows the evolution of these interactions, from direct engagements with specific individuals to mediated relations with a conventionalized icon: the Oriental Monk. Visually and psychically compelling, the Oriental Monk becomes for Americans a ''figure of translation''--a convenient symbol for alternative spiritualities and modes of being. Through the figure of the solitary Monk, who generously and purposefully shares his wisdom with the West, Asian religiosity is made manageable-psychologically, socially, and politically--for popular culture consumption. Iwamura's insightful study shows that though popular engagement with Asian religions in the United States has increased, the fact that much of this has taken virtual form makes stereotypical constructions of "the spiritual East" obdurate and especially difficult to challenge.
Author: Robert Ellwood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-03
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1315507234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text explores the major new or unconventional religions and spiritual movements in America that exist outside the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Author: Amanda Porterfield
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0470692812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.
Author: Leigh E. Schmidt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012-07-30
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0253002168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Religious liberalism in America has often been equated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. By contrast, American Religious Liberalism draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America's religious movements. The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and boundaries to interrogate religious liberalism's dense cultural leanings by looking at spirituality in the arts, the politics and piety of religious cosmopolitanism, and the interaction between liberal religion and liberal secularism. Readers will find a kaleidoscopic view of many of the progressive strands of America's religious past and present in this richly provocative volume.
Author: Frank Field Ellinwood
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 438
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