Restless Souls [electronic resource] : The Making of American Spirituality, Second Edition with a New Preface.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (361 p.)ISBN:- 9780520954113 (electronic bk.)
- 0520954114 (electronic bk.)
- 204.0973
- BL2525 .S33 2012
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Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism-all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. Tracing out the country's Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the last two centuries, Restless Souls explores America's abiding romance with spirituality as religion's better half. Now in its second edition, including a new preface, Leigh Eric Schmidt's fascinating book provides a rich account of how this open-road spirituality developed in American culture in the first place as well as a sweepin
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