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American gurus : from American transcendentalism to new age religion by Arthur Versluis is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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By the early twenty-first century, a phenomenon that once was inconceivable had become nearly commonplace in American society: the public spiritual teacher who neither belongs to, nor is authorized by a major religious tradition. From the Oprah Winfrey-endorsed Eckhart Tolle to figures like Gangaji and Adhyashanti, there are now countless spiritual teachers who claim and teach variants of instant or immediate enlightenment. <p>American Gurus tells the story of how this phenomenon emerged. Throug
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Arthur Versluis
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190201951
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Buddhism, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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