New PDF release: Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

ISBN-10: 0520273672

ISBN-13: 9780520273672

Yoga periods and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism—all are a part of an ongoing spiritual experimentation that has strangely deep roots in American historical past. Tracing out the country’s Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan spiritual impulses over the past centuries, Restless Souls explores America’s abiding romance with spirituality as religion’s spouse. Now in its moment version, together with a brand new preface, Leigh Eric Schmidt's interesting booklet offers a wealthy account of ways this open-road spirituality constructed in American tradition within the first position in addition to a sweeping survey of the liberal non secular hobbies that touted it and ensured its endured vitality.

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