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American transcendentalism and Asian religions /

The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to include post-Civil War Transcendentalists like Samuel Johnson, this book is encyclopedic in scope. Beginning with the inception of Transcendentalist O...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Versluis, Arthur, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Colección:Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Transcendentalism and the Orient
  • Predecessors: The First Meetings of East and West
  • The German Tradition and the East
  • The English Romantics and the Orient Fair
  • Joseph Priestley: Moses and the Hindoos
  • Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, and the Orient
  • Emerson's "Asia Mine,"
  • Thoreau Sauntering Eastward
  • Alcott's Universal Bible
  • The Dissenters: Melville and Brownson
  • Melville as Gnostic
  • Orestes Brownson and Tradition
  • The Ambience: Orientalism in General-Interest American Magazines
  • The Popular Climate West and East
  • Ambience and Embodiment of Transcendental Dreams
  • Converting the World
  • Images of America's Golden Age
  • Transcendental Dreams and Earthly Fiction
  • Transcendentalist Periodicals and the Orient
  • Literary Religion and Social Reform: The Western Messenger, The Dial, The Present, The Harbinger, and The Spirit of the Age
  • The Universal and the Particular: The Cincinnati Dial, The Radical, The Index, and the Journal of Speculative Philosophy
  • Patterns in Literary Religion: The Orient and the Second Cycle of Transcendentalism
  • Beginnings: Lydia Maria Child and The Progress of Religious Ideas
  • Unitarian Transcendentalism: James Freeman Clarke and Elizabeth Peabody
  • Universal Religion: John Weiss and Samuel Johnson
  • The Sympathetic Universalism of William Rounseville Alger
  • Octavius Brooks Frothingham's Religion of Humanity and Moncure Conway's Anthropocentrism
  • Drawing Conclusions in the Drawing Room
  • Artists and Asia
  • Popular Ramifications
  • The Twentieth Century.