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American Gurus - From Transcendtalism to New Age Religion by Arthur Versluis




Arthur Versluis's American Gurus traces the history of modern American spiritual teachers claiming "spontaneous enlightenment," linking Transcendentalists like Emerson to contemporary figures, showing how Western mysticism and Asian religions converged to create this "immediatist" tradition of direct, unmediated spiritual insight, a "pathless path" distinct from traditional practice, providing a cultural history of this potent spiritual impulse


Published: Oxford University Press, New York 2014
Condition: Fine. Dust jacket unclipped, in protective plastic wrapper. Binding firm, pages clean and unmarked.


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