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In The Secular Religion of Franklin Merrell-Wolff: An Intellectual History of Anti-intellectualism in Modern America, Dave Vliegenthart offers an account of the life and teachings of the modern American mystic Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887–1985), who combined secular and religious sources from eastern and western traditions in order to elaborate and legitimate his metaphysical claim to the realization of a transcendental reality beyond reason. Using Merrell-Wolff as a typical example of a modern western guru, Vliegenthart investigates the larger sociological and historical context of the ongoing grand narrative that asserts a widespread anti-intellectualism in modern American culture, exploring developments in religious, philosophical, and psychological discourses in North America from 1800 until the present.

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Author:   Dave Vliegenthart
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   158
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9789004361072

ISBN 10:   9004361073
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   01 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction  Franklin Merrell-Wolff  Secular Religion  Anti-Intellectualism  Outline of This Study  Acknowledgments 1 Origination (1887–1914)  Religion   Childhood: Evangelical Religion   Adolescence: Metaphysical Religion   Adulthood: Oriental(ist) Religion  Philosophy   Pragmatism  Psychology   New Thought   New Psychology 2 Investigation (1914–1936)  Religion   The Temple of the People   The Arcane School   The International Sufi Movement   The United Lodge of Theosophists   The Benares League of America   The Assembly of Man  Philosophy   Einstein’s Philosophy of “Religion”   Keyserling’s Religious “Philosophy”  Psychology   Jung’s “Creative Phantasy” 3 Realization (1936–1978)  Three Preliminary Realizations  First Fundamental Realization  Second Fundamental Realization   Introception   Introceptualism  Religion   Indian Idealism  Philosophy   German Idealism  Psychology   The Human Potential Movement 4 Routinization (1978–Today)  Religion   Cults, New Religions, and Emergent Traditions  Philosophy   Perennialism versus Constructivism  Psychology   Autobiographically “Advaitizing” Immediatism Conclusion  Social Crises and New Religions  Competition and Rationalization  Secular-Religious Theology Bibliography Index of Persons Index of Subjects

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Dave Vliegenthart, PhD (2017), University of Groningen, is a lecturer in the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Maastricht University, specializing in the study of eastern-inspired western gurus and new religious movements in modern western culture.

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