The Swani in America
Author | : Carl T. Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Vedanta |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carl T. Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Vedanta |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Timothy Miller |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791423974 |
This is a source of reliable information on the most important new and alternative religions covering history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. It includes a chapter on the Branch Davidians.
Author | : Stephen Bonsal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Telliyavaram Mahadevan Ponnambalam Mahadevan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Noah Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1472 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vijay Prashad |
Publisher | : New Press, The |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1595587845 |
Discusses the South Asian community in America including the history of political activism, an analysis of the shifting ideas of culture, and examines the wave of violence the community experienced right after September 11.
Author | : Philip Goldberg |
Publisher | : Harmony |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385521359 |
A fascinating look at India’s remarkable impact on Western culture, this eye-opening popular history shows how the ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga have profoundly affected the worldview of millions of Americans and radically altered the religious landscape. What exploded in the 1960s, following the Beatles trip to India for an extended stay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, actually began more than two hundred years earlier, when the United States started importing knowledge--as well as tangy spices and colorful fabrics--from Asia. The first translations of Hindu texts found their way into the libraries of John Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson. From there the ideas spread to Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and succeeding generations of receptive Americans, who absorbed India’s “science of consciousness” and wove it into the fabric of their lives. Charismatic teachers like Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa Yogananda came west in waves, prompting leading intellectuals, artists, and scientists such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, John Coltrane, Dean Ornish, and Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, to adapt and disseminate what they learned from them. The impact has been enormous, enlarging our current understanding of the mind and body and dramatically changing how we view ourselves and our place in the cosmos. Goldberg paints a compelling picture of this remarkable East-to-West transmission, showing how it accelerated through the decades and eventually moved from the counterculture into our laboratories, libraries, and living rooms. Now physicians and therapists routinely recommend meditation, words like karma and mantra are part of our everyday vocabulary, and Yoga studios are as ubiquitous as Starbuckses. The insights of India’s sages permeate so much of what we think, believe, and do that they have redefined the meaning of life for millions of Americans—and continue to do so every day. Rich in detail and expansive in scope, American Veda shows how we have come to accept and live by the central teaching of Vedic wisdom: “Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.”
Author | : Antony Copley |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2006-08-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0739161229 |
A Spiritual Bloomsbury is an exploration of how three English writers—Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood—sought to come to terms with their homosexuality by engagement with Hinduism. Copley reveals how these writers came to terms with their inner conflicts and were led in the direction of Hinduism by friendship or the influence of gurus. Tackling the themes of the guru-disciple relationship, their quarrel with Christianity, relationships with their mothers and the problematic feminine, the tensions between sexuality and society, and the attraction of Hindu mysticism; this fascinating work seeks to reveal whether Hinduism offered the answers and fulfillment these writers ultimately sought. Also included is a diary narrating Copley's quest to track down Carpenter's and Isherwood's Vendantism and Forster's Krishna cult on a journey to India.
Author | : Timothy Miller |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1998-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780815627753 |
This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive perspective—a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century—has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.