Spirituality in the making - Mystic club - Solitude - The piety of the world - Meditation for Americans - Freedom and self-surrender - Seekers - Be gentle with yourselfĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:03:20 Boxid IA1777704 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-322) and index In contrast to prevailing fears about the conservative influence of religion in America, Restless Souls depicts a vibrantly open American spirituality and serves as a timely reminder of the ample religious resources of the liberal tradition This book places the most recent spiritual upsurge in the context of a broader cultural and intellectual history. We're taken from pioneer Johnny Appleseed to translator of Sufi poetry Coleman Barks, from theosophist Madame Blavatsky to meditation guru Ram Dass, and then to many more. In Restless Souls, historian Leigh Schmidt deftly traces this American romance with the interior life from the likes of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson to television host Oprah Winfrey, from poet Walt Whitman to Senator Barack Obama, from questing psychologist William James to Zen basketball coach Phil Jackson. But the American fascination with mystical experience and churchless spirituality goes back much further than the psychedelic era Since the 1960s, our expanded and enhanced spiritual explorations have changed us from a nation of church goers into a culture of seekers. Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New Age seminars and holistic workshops, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and books by Deepak Chopra - all are part of the religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history.
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