Download or read book The Swani in America written by Carl T. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Alternative Religions written by Timothy Miller and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a source of reliable information on the most important new and alternative religions covering history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. It includes a chapter on the Branch Davidians.
Download or read book Uncle Swami written by Vijay Prashad and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the South Asian community in America including the history of political activism, an analysis of the shifting ideas of culture, and examines the wave of violence the community experienced right after September 11.
Download or read book Swani Vivekananda and the Indian Renaissance written by Telliyavaram Mahadevan Ponnambalam Mahadevan and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missions written by Howard Benjamin Grose and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morocco as it is written by Stephen Bonsal and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Veda written by Philip Goldberg and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at India’s remarkable impact on Western culture, this eye-opening popular history shows how the ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga have profoundly affected the worldview of millions of Americans and radically altered the religious landscape. What exploded in the 1960s, following the Beatles trip to India for an extended stay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, actually began more than two hundred years earlier, when the United States started importing knowledge--as well as tangy spices and colorful fabrics--from Asia. The first translations of Hindu texts found their way into the libraries of John Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson. From there the ideas spread to Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and succeeding generations of receptive Americans, who absorbed India’s “science of consciousness” and wove it into the fabric of their lives. Charismatic teachers like Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa Yogananda came west in waves, prompting leading intellectuals, artists, and scientists such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, John Coltrane, Dean Ornish, and Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, to adapt and disseminate what they learned from them. The impact has been enormous, enlarging our current understanding of the mind and body and dramatically changing how we view ourselves and our place in the cosmos. Goldberg paints a compelling picture of this remarkable East-to-West transmission, showing how it accelerated through the decades and eventually moved from the counterculture into our laboratories, libraries, and living rooms. Now physicians and therapists routinely recommend meditation, words like karma and mantra are part of our everyday vocabulary, and Yoga studios are as ubiquitous as Starbuckses. The insights of India’s sages permeate so much of what we think, believe, and do that they have redefined the meaning of life for millions of Americans—and continue to do so every day. Rich in detail and expansive in scope, American Veda shows how we have come to accept and live by the central teaching of Vedic wisdom: “Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.”
Download or read book The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth Century America written by Timothy Miller and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive perspective—a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century—has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.
Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Spiritual Bloomsbury written by Antony Copley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006-08-04 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spiritual Bloomsbury is an exploration of how three English writers—Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood—sought to come to terms with their homosexuality by engagement with Hinduism. Copley reveals how these writers came to terms with their inner conflicts and were led in the direction of Hinduism by friendship or the influence of gurus. Tackling the themes of the guru-disciple relationship, their quarrel with Christianity, relationships with their mothers and the problematic feminine, the tensions between sexuality and society, and the attraction of Hindu mysticism; this fascinating work seeks to reveal whether Hinduism offered the answers and fulfillment these writers ultimately sought. Also included is a diary narrating Copley's quest to track down Carpenter's and Isherwood's Vendantism and Forster's Krishna cult on a journey to India.
Download or read book Female Ascetics written by Wendy Sinclair-Brull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines in rich detail the neglected topic of female ascetics. Based on field research, it documents the social forces which facilitated the establishment of an Order of Ascetics for women, defying tradition in many respects. It describes the subtle methods by which the individual is transformed into a full member of the Order, and how hierarchy and purity are indeed integral to the process.
Download or read book On Hinduism written by Swami Vivekananda and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synopsis of the Fishes of North America written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir attempts to give concise descriptions of all the fish species known to inhabit the waters of North America, north of the boundary between the United States and Mexico. The classification system adopted is essentially based on the views of Professors Gill and Cope rather than the fish groupings offered by the European systematists, with an effort to avoid unnatural associations in genera and families on one hand and subdivision beyond reasonable limits, on the other. Genera which have defied precise definition are rarely adopted.
Download or read book With the Swamis in America and India written by Swami Atulananda and published by Vedanta Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the adventures of a Westemer who meets Swami Vivekananda.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda written by His Eastern and Western Admirers and published by Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math). This book was released on 2018 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swami Vivekananda’s towering personality influenced innumerable persons in India and abroad in various ways. The impress which his life and character made on those persons who were about him and the recounting of those memories by them, reveal the multiple facets of Swamiji’s magnanimous personality. This book published by Advaita Ashrama, Publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, contains some of those reminiscences which would be not only interesting, but also a revelation to all the admirers of the great Swami. Twenty-two new reminiscences have been added in this edition – Swamis Shivananda, Turiyananda, Saradananda, Akhandananda, Vijnanananda, Achalananda, Atulananda, Virajananda, and Sadananda, as also Brajendranath Seal, C. Ramanujachari, Kumudbandhu Sen, Lillian Montgomery, Mohanlal Shah, Mary Tapan Wright, Sacchindranath Bose, Manmathanath Chowdhury, Harbilas Sarda, G.G. Narasimhachari, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Shailendranath Bandopadhyay and Alice Hansbrough.
Download or read book The Communal Experience written by Laurence R. Veysey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1978-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original impulse for groups to separate from society and establish communities of their own was religious. Though the religious side of this drive toward separation remains strong, the last two centuries have seen the appearance of secular communities with a socialist or anarchist orientation. In The Communal Experience, nominated for a National Book Award in 1973, Laurence Veysey explores the close resemblances between the secular and religious forms of cultural radicalism through intensive observation of four little-known communities. Veysey compares the history of secular communities such as the early Ferrer Colony and Modern School, of Shelton, New Jersey, with contemporary anarchist communities in New York, Vermont, and New Mexico. Religious communes—"Communities of Discipline"—such as the Vedanta monasteries of the early twentieth century are compared with contemporary mystical communities in New Mexico. Distinctions between the anarchist and the mystical groups are most obvious from their approach to communal life. As Veysey shows, anarchist communities are loose, unstructured, voluntaristic; the mystics establish more rigid life-styles, focus on spiritual leaders, and hold community a secondary goal to self-realization. In a new preface written for this Phoenix Edition, he describes his return to a New Mexican mystical community and the changes that have occurred in the six years since his last visit.
Download or read book Swami Adbhutananda As We Saw Him written by Chandrashekhar Chattopadhyay and published by Sri Ramakrishna Math. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swami Adbhutananda was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. Although he never underwent any formal education, he was a perfect knower of God and a personification of simplicity, straightforwardness and spirituality. This book is a translation of the original Bengali Sri Sri Latu Maharajer Smritikatha written by Chandrashekar Chattopadhyay. It is a charming account of Adbhutananada’s association with Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and other disciples. It also provides intimate glimpses of his austere life, devotion to God, dispassion towards the world, and intense spiritual practices.
