Homegrown Gurus
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-4791-9 (ISBN)
Today, a new stage in the development of Hinduism in America is taking shape. After a century of experimentation during which Americans welcomed Indian gurus who adjusted their teachings to accommodate the New World context, "American Hinduism" can now rightly be called its own tradition rather than an imported religion. Accordingly, this spiritual path is now headed by leaders born in North America. Homegrown Gurus explores this phenomenon in essays about these figures and their networks. A variety of teachers and movements are considered, including Ram Dass, Siddha Yoga, and Amrit Desai and Kripalu Yoga, among others. Two contradictory trends quickly become apparent: an increasing Westernization of Hindu practices and values alongside a renewed interest in traditional forms of Hinduism. These opposed sensibilities—innovation and preservation, radicalism and recovery—are characteristic of postmodernity and denote a new chapter in the American assimilation of Hinduism.
Ann Gleig is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Central Florida. Lola Williamson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Millsaps College and the author of Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion.
List of Figures
Editor’s Note
Introduction: From Wave to Soil
Ann Gleig and Lola Williamson
1. Ram Dass: The Vicissitudes of Devotion and Ferocity of Grace
F. X. Charet
2. Building Tantric Infrastructure in America: Rudi’s Western Kashmir Shaivism
Helen Crovetto
3. Amrit Desai and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
Ellen Goldberg
4. Swamis, Scholars, and Gurus: Siddha Yoga’s American Legacy
Lola Williamson
5. A Life in Progress: The Biographies of Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Richard D. Mann
6. Guru Authority, Religious Innovation, and the Decline of New Vrindaban
E. Burke Rochford Jr. and Henry Doktorski
7. Neo-Advaita in America: Three Representative Teachers
Philip Charles Lucas
8. From Being to Becoming, Transcending to Transforming: Andrew Cohen and the Evolution of Enlightenment
Ann Gleig
Conclusion: On Reason, Religion, and the Real
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Contributors
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.11.2013 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 15 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 472 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-4791-4 / 1438447914 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-4791-9 / 9781438447919 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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