American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions

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  • American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions Book Detail

  • Author : Arthur Versluis
  • Release Date : 1993
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Genre : Asia
  • Pages : 364
  • ISBN 13 : 0195076583
  • File Size : 34,34 MB
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American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions by Arthur Versluis PDF Summary

Book Description: Arthur Versluis offers a comprehensive study of the relationship between the American Transcendentalists and Asian religions. He argues that an influx of new information about these religions shook nineteenth-century American religious consciousness to the core. With the publication of ever more material on Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, the Judeo-Christian tradition was inevitably placed as just one among a number of religious traditions. Fundamentalists and conservatives denounced this influx as a threat, but the Transcendentalists embraced it, poring over the sacred books of Asia to extract ethical injunctions, admonitions to self-transcendence, myths taken to support Christian doctrines, and manifestations of a supposed coming universal religion.

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