عنوان

American Veda :

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(Number (ISBN

0385521340

Number

48061

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

American Veda :

Other Title Information

from Emerson and the Beatles to yoga and meditation : how Indian spirituality changed the West /

First Statement of Responsibility

Philip Goldberg.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harmony Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 398 p., [8] p. of plates :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Text of Note

Index.

Text of Note

Namaste, America! : what India has given us and why it matters -- The voice of an old intelligence : "Hindoo" texts enchant Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman -- New thought in old wineskins : Eddy, Blavatsky, and the New Thoughters metabolize Vedanta -- The handsome monk in the orange robe : Swami Vivekananda conquers the Parliament and creates the Vedanta Society -- The public intellectuals : swamis tutor smart guys, and they tutor us -- The yogi of the autobiography : Paramahansa Yogananda becomes the voice of India -- Blowin' in the wind : Beatniks, hippies, and consciousness expanders trip toward the East -- Maha mass media : The Fab Four find Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and meditation goes mainstream -- The Baby Boomers' babas : Muktananda, Bhaktivedanta, and other gurus storm the seventies -- The yoga bearers : Satchidananda, Iyengar, and other yogacharyas take Americans to the mat -- Sex, lies and idiosyncrasies : the guru wave casts a shadow -- Made in the USA : Ram Dass, Deepak, and other American acharyas take the wheel -- Not just academic : practitioner-pandits penetrate the Ivory Tower -- Guru Americana : om-grown gurus gather disciples -- Art-omatic transmissions : musicians and writers channel India -- The soul of science, the science of soul : the cosmic Shiva dances into the lab -- Into the mystic : a priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into an ashram -- The once and future religion : American the spiritual evolves.

Hinduism -- United States -- History.

Vedanta -- History.

Yoga -- History.

هندوئیسم -- ایالات متحده -- تاریخ

Goldberg, Philip,1944-

گلدبرگ، فیلیپ

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