The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Lights and Shadows -- Part I: God Shed His Grace -- Section 1: Divine and Devilish Things -- One. The Metaphysical Cotton Mather -- Two. Jonathan Edwards: Latter-Day Puritan and Metaphysician -- Section 2: Supernatural and Natural -- Three. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Sup...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Religion
/ Effort
/ Good living (motif)
/ Metaphysics
/ Spirituality
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| Further subjects: | B
Metaphysics
B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Lights and Shadows -- Part I: God Shed His Grace -- Section 1: Divine and Devilish Things -- One. The Metaphysical Cotton Mather -- Two. Jonathan Edwards: Latter-Day Puritan and Metaphysician -- Section 2: Supernatural and Natural -- Three. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Supernatural Naturalist -- Four. Horace Bushnell: Natural Supernaturalist -- Part II: The Fruited Plain -- Section 3: Commercial and Un-Unitarian Times -- Five. Albert Brisbane and the Metempsychosis of Sex -- Six. Andrew Jackson Davis and the Matter of Sex and Spirit -- Section 4: Physic and Metaphysic -- Seven. Warren Felt Evans: From Methodism to Mind Cure -- Eight. William James: From Anatomy to the Science of Spirit -- Section 5: Purses, Profits, and Future Pefect -- Nine. Minding Money and Market: Emma Curtis Hopkins and Elizabeth Towne -- Ten. Arcanes of Prosperity: The Multiverses of William Walker Atkinson -- Eleven. Channeling Delight and Destiny: The Coming of Seth and Abraham -- Afterword: And Crowned Thy Good? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (371 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0226823342 |