The new metaphysicals: spirituality and the American religious imagination
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Beteilige Person: Bender, Courtney (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index
Introduction: long shadows -- Shamans in the meetinghouse: locating contemporary spirituality -- Becoming mystics -- Tuning the body -- Karmic laundry: imagining and embodying spiritual history -- "Zooming around": mystical lands and cosmopolitanisms
American spirituality--with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration--is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But, as The New Metaphysicals makes clear, contemporary American spirituality has historic roots in the nineteenth century and a great deal in common with traditional religious movements. To explore this world, Courtney Bender combines research into the history of the movement with fieldwork in Cambridge, Massachusetts--a key site of alternative religious inquiry from Emerson and William James to today. Through her ethnographic analysis, Bender discov
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ISBN:0226042790
0226043177
9780226042794
9780226043173