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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Versluis, Arthur, 1959- American transcendentalism and Asian religions. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (DLC) 92024770 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arthur Versluis |
ISBN: | 9780195076585 0195076583 1423764773 9781423764779 1280442514 9781280442513 9786610442515 6610442517 0195360370 9780195360370 |
OCLC Number: | 567928161 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 355 pages) |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) |
Responsibility: | Arthur Versluis. |
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A major scholarly study of the importance of oriental thought on the group of Americans known as the Transcendentalists. It is a study that shows wide and deep reading in comparative religion and philosophy, and it greatly enlightens us with regard to how Hindu and Buddhist ideas came to shape the work of many intellectual thinkers. * Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * Read more...

