American Religious HistoryAmanda Porterfield John Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 352 pages In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion. |
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... American Buddhist practice to date. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She served on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee for twenty years ...
... American Buddhist practice to date. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She served on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee for twenty years ...
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... Buddhists in the United States have reinterpreted traditional Buddhist teachings to suit American expectations about religious life. In this process, Buddhists have developed efl'ective new ways of attending to the psychological ...
... Buddhists in the United States have reinterpreted traditional Buddhist teachings to suit American expectations about religious life. In this process, Buddhists have developed efl'ective new ways of attending to the psychological ...
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... American individualism includes the bravery of Native American heroes, the mysticism of Catholic monastics, the good deeds of Jewish humanitarians, and the self-mastery of practitioners of Hindu and Buddhist meditation, to take just a ...
... American individualism includes the bravery of Native American heroes, the mysticism of Catholic monastics, the good deeds of Jewish humanitarians, and the self-mastery of practitioners of Hindu and Buddhist meditation, to take just a ...
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... Americans became increasingly skillful in analyzing and managing this process of ... American fascination with religious experience has other branches as well ... Buddhist psychology. Transcendentalists and their successors were intrigued ...
... Americans became increasingly skillful in analyzing and managing this process of ... American fascination with religious experience has other branches as well ... Buddhist psychology. Transcendentalists and their successors were intrigued ...
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... American interest in Buddhism grew in the late twentieth century, the lifting of strict quotas on Asian immigrants brought more Asian Buddhists and Buddhist teachers to the United States. The growing presence of Buddhist people and ...
... American interest in Buddhism grew in the late twentieth century, the lifting of strict quotas on Asian immigrants brought more Asian Buddhists and Buddhist teachers to the United States. The growing presence of Buddhist people and ...
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