American Veda : from Emerson and the Beatles to yoga and meditation : how Indian spirituality changed the West
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385521345 : HRD
- ISBN: 0385521340 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780385521345 : HRD
- ISBN: 0385521340 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780385521345
- ISBN: 0385521340
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Physical Description:
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p. ; cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday Religion, c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Namaste, America! : intro and overview -- The voice of an old intelligence : Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- New thought in old wineskins : the New Thought Movement -- The handsome monk in the orange robe : Swami Vivekananda and Vedanta Society -- The public intellectuals : Huxley, Isherwood, Heard, Smith, Campbell -- The yogi of the autobiography : Yogananda and SRF -- Blowin' in the wind : the 50s and 60s -- Maha mass media : Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and TM movement -- The Baby Boomers' babas : gurus of the 70s (Muktananda, et al) -- Yoga bearers : the gurus who kicked started the yoga boom -- Sex, lies and idiosyncrasies : the shadow side of the guru wave -- Made in the USA : American gnostic intermediaries - the Acharyas -- Not just academic : American practitioner-pandits -- Guru Americana : American gurus -- Artomatic transmissions : dissemination through music, literature, and other art forms -- Spirit of science, science of spirit : physics, medicine, consciousness research, etc -- Into the mystic : academia and western mysticism -- The once and future religion : how Vedic teachings are changing -- American spirituality. |
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Subject: | Hinduism United States History Vedanta History Yoga History United States Religion |
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Southbury Public Library | 294.50973 GOLDBERG (Text) | 34019121068811 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |