Title: Turning east : the promise and peril of the new orientalism /
Authors: Cox, Harvey, 1929-
Publisher: Simon and Schuster,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Cox, Harvey,; Cults United States; Spiritual life Baptist authors.; Christianity and other religions.; East and West Religious aspects.; Spiritual life.; United States Religion.; Orient Religion.
Contents: Never the twain -- The sound of one hand: the story of a Zen drop-out -- The flesh of the gods: turning on and turning east -- The hag of Naropa -- Meditation and Sabbath -- The poof of Narcissus: the psychologizing of meditation -- Turning east -- Buddhists and Benedictines: Christianity and the turn east; Sangha and friendship; Dharma and Gospel; Jesus and the guru -- Enlightenment by ticketron: American society and the turn east -- The myth of the orient -- Toward a spirituality of the secular.