The American Soul Rush : Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege.

By: Goldman, Marion SMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Qualitative Studies in Religion SerPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780814733387Subject(s): Religion and sociology - United States - History - 21st centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The American Soul Rush : Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual PrivilegeDDC classification: 204/.350979476 LOC classification: BL2525.G65 2011Online resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Esalen, the Soul Rush, and Spiritual Privilege -- 1 Esalen's Wellspring: Foundational Doctrines -- 2 Esalen's Reach: A Brief History -- 3 Spiritual Privilege and Personal Transformation -- 4 Living Privilege: Four Esalen Men -- 5 Gender at Esalen -- 6. Esalen's Legacies -- Conclusion: New Beginnings -- Appendix 1: Experiential Exercises: When Words Fail -- Appendix 2: The Walter Truett Anderson Collection -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Author.
Summary: Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical options for most people outside of the upper class or small groups of educated spiritual seekers. Esalen Institute, a retreat for spiritual and personal growth in Big Sur, California, played a pioneering role in popularizing quests for self-transformation and personalized spirituality. This "soul rush" spread quickly throughout the United States as the Institute made ordinary people aware of hundreds of ways to select, combine, and revise their beliefs about the sacred and to explore diverse mystical experiences. Millions of Americans now identify themselves as spiritual, not religious, because Esalen paved the way for them to explore spirituality without affiliating with established denominations The American Soul Rush explores the concept of spiritual privilege and Esalen's foundational influence on the growth and spread of diverse spiritual practices that affirm individuals' self-worth and possibilities for positive personal change. The book also describes the people, narratives, and relationships at the Institute that produced persistent, almost accidental inequalities in order to illuminate the ways that gender is central to religion and spirituality in most contexts.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Esalen, the Soul Rush, and Spiritual Privilege -- 1 Esalen's Wellspring: Foundational Doctrines -- 2 Esalen's Reach: A Brief History -- 3 Spiritual Privilege and Personal Transformation -- 4 Living Privilege: Four Esalen Men -- 5 Gender at Esalen -- 6. Esalen's Legacies -- Conclusion: New Beginnings -- Appendix 1: Experiential Exercises: When Words Fail -- Appendix 2: The Walter Truett Anderson Collection -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Author.

Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical options for most people outside of the upper class or small groups of educated spiritual seekers. Esalen Institute, a retreat for spiritual and personal growth in Big Sur, California, played a pioneering role in popularizing quests for self-transformation and personalized spirituality. This "soul rush" spread quickly throughout the United States as the Institute made ordinary people aware of hundreds of ways to select, combine, and revise their beliefs about the sacred and to explore diverse mystical experiences. Millions of Americans now identify themselves as spiritual, not religious, because Esalen paved the way for them to explore spirituality without affiliating with established denominations The American Soul Rush explores the concept of spiritual privilege and Esalen's foundational influence on the growth and spread of diverse spiritual practices that affirm individuals' self-worth and possibilities for positive personal change. The book also describes the people, narratives, and relationships at the Institute that produced persistent, almost accidental inequalities in order to illuminate the ways that gender is central to religion and spirituality in most contexts.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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