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Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion
Combining Hinduism with Western concepts and values, a new hybrid form of religion has developed in the US over the past century. This title traces the history of various Hindu-inspired movements in America, and argues that together they constitute a discrete category of religious practice, a distinct and identifiable form of new religion.
Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion
Traces the history of various Hindu-inspired movements in America, and argues that together they constitute a discrete category of religious practice, a distinct and identifiable form of new religion. This book offers an overview of the emergence of these movements through examining exchanges between Indian Hindus and American intellectuals.
George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family ......
This is a psychoanalytic study of George Eliot's fiction. It focuses centrally on aggression in Eliot's novels, drawing on the clinical work of psychoanalyists. The author argues that Eliot's is a hidden aggression, and demonstrates the ways in which this aggression is manifested in her characters.
This collection of essays develops Edward Nell's influential theory of transformational growth. Nell sets established concepts such as the classical notion of prices of production and the wage-profit frontier within a significant new framework that illustrates their role in the dynamic evoution of the industrial system from its beginnings in ......
Economy, Society, and the State in the Modern Times
Focusing on the structural shifts in advanced political economies, this volume examines trends which occur below the surface of economic activity. The essays seek to identify the basic patterns of those transformations, and their implications for contemporary and future capitalisms.
Through a series of ethnographic case studies, this volume presents the responses of American women whose experiences of motherhood have failed to match up to the standards and norms which have been set by consumer culture.
Through a series of ethnographic case studies, this volume presents the responses of American women whose experiences of motherhood have failed to match up to the standards and norms which have been set by consumer culture.
