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The Secular Religion of Franklin Merrell-Wolff
An Intellectual History of Anti-Intellectualism in Modern America
Series: - Numen Book Series, Volume: 158
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In The Secular Religion of Franklin Merrell-Wolff: An Intellectual History of Anti-intellectualism in Modern America, Dave Vliegenthart offers an account of the life and teachings of the modern American mystic Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887–1985), who combined secular and religious sources from eastern and western traditions in order to elaborate and legitimate his metaphysical claim to the realization of a transcendental reality beyond reason.
Using Merrell-Wolff as a typical example of a modern western guru, Vliegenthart investigates the larger sociological and historical context of the ongoing grand narrative that asserts a widespread anti-intellectualism in modern American culture, exploring developments in religious, philosophical, and psychological discourses in North America from 1800 until the present.
Using Merrell-Wolff as a typical example of a modern western guru, Vliegenthart investigates the larger sociological and historical context of the ongoing grand narrative that asserts a widespread anti-intellectualism in modern American culture, exploring developments in religious, philosophical, and psychological discourses in North America from 1800 until the present.
Dave Vliegenthart, PhD (2017), University of Groningen, is a lecturer in the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Maastricht University, specializing in the study of eastern-inspired western gurus and new religious movements in modern western culture.
Introduction
Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Secular Religion
Anti-Intellectualism
Outline of This Study
Acknowledgments
1 Origination (1887–1914)
Religion
Childhood: Evangelical Religion
Adolescence: Metaphysical Religion
Adulthood: Oriental(ist) Religion
Philosophy
Pragmatism
Psychology
New Thought
New Psychology
2 Investigation (1914–1936)
Religion
The Temple of the People
The Arcane School
The International Sufi Movement
The United Lodge of Theosophists
The Benares League of America
The Assembly of Man
Philosophy
Einstein’s Philosophy of “Religion”
Keyserling’s Religious “Philosophy”
Psychology
Jung’s “Creative Phantasy”
3 Realization (1936–1978)
Three Preliminary Realizations
First Fundamental Realization
Second Fundamental Realization
Introception
Introceptualism
Religion
Indian Idealism
Philosophy
German Idealism
Psychology
The Human Potential Movement
4 Routinization (1978–Today)
Religion
Cults, New Religions, and Emergent Traditions
Philosophy
Perennialism versus Constructivism
Psychology
Autobiographically “Advaitizing” Immediatism
Conclusion
Social Crises and New Religions
Competition and Rationalization
Secular-Religious Theology
Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects
Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Secular Religion
Anti-Intellectualism
Outline of This Study
Acknowledgments
1 Origination (1887–1914)
Religion
Childhood: Evangelical Religion
Adolescence: Metaphysical Religion
Adulthood: Oriental(ist) Religion
Philosophy
Pragmatism
Psychology
New Thought
New Psychology
2 Investigation (1914–1936)
Religion
The Temple of the People
The Arcane School
The International Sufi Movement
The United Lodge of Theosophists
The Benares League of America
The Assembly of Man
Philosophy
Einstein’s Philosophy of “Religion”
Keyserling’s Religious “Philosophy”
Psychology
Jung’s “Creative Phantasy”
3 Realization (1936–1978)
Three Preliminary Realizations
First Fundamental Realization
Second Fundamental Realization
Introception
Introceptualism
Religion
Indian Idealism
Philosophy
German Idealism
Psychology
The Human Potential Movement
4 Routinization (1978–Today)
Religion
Cults, New Religions, and Emergent Traditions
Philosophy
Perennialism versus Constructivism
Psychology
Autobiographically “Advaitizing” Immediatism
Conclusion
Social Crises and New Religions
Competition and Rationalization
Secular-Religious Theology
Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects
Anyone interested in the history of the intercultural and interdisciplinary secular religions of modern western gurus in North American culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as anyone interested in (the development of) modern American anti-intellectualism.