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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Tracking America's Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the past two centuries, Restless Souls explores the country's abiding romance with spirituality as religion's better half. This second edition of the book provides both a rich account of how America's open road spirituality developed in the 1st place and a sweeping survey of the liberal religious movements that touted it and ensured its continued vitality. no reviews | add a review
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 sweeping survey of the liberal religious movements that touted it and ensured its continued vitality. No library descriptions found. |
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