American gurus : from American transcendentalism to New Age religion /
Versluis, Arthur,1959-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revivalism, romanticism, and the Protestant principle -- The sage of Concord -- Emerson and Platonism -- The Concord school of philosophy and American Platonism -- Walt Whitman's cosmic consciousness -- American (literary) spiritual teachers -- Beat religion and the choice -- Enter psychedelics -- Dogmas, catmas, and spiritual anarchism -- Oh, ho, ho, it's magic ... -- Spiritual anarchy, tantra, and Islamic heterodoxy -- On the counterculture -- From Europe to America -- Varieties of modern American mysticism -- The sage on the stage -- The American guru enters, stage left -- The immediatist wave -- Conclusions.
Religious leaders