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American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions

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ISBN-10: 0195076583

ISBN-13: 9780195076585

Edition: 1993

Authors: Arthur. Versluis

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List price: $240.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/16/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 9.57" wide x 6.46" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

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
Concluding Remarks
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
Conclusion
Drawing Conclusions in the Drawing Room
Artists and Asia
Popular Ramifications
The Twentieth Century
Bibliography
Index