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Transcendentalism, Brahmanism, and Universal Religion
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This chapter argues that Transcendentalist writers represented India as a land of contemplative and mystical religion. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau saw the mystical religion of India and Asia in general as an alternative to the rational and materialist Protestantism of America. Later Transcendentalists categorized the religion of India as “Brahmanism.” James Freeman Clarke, Lydia Maria Child, and Samuel Johnson described Brahmanism in various works of comparative religion. These Transcendentalists compared religions in order to discover the one Universal Religion that would unite mankind spiritually. They described Brahmanism as the religion that contributed contemplation, unity, and mysticism to this transcendent Universal Religion.
Title: Transcendentalism, Brahmanism, and Universal Religion
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This chapter argues that Transcendentalist writers represented India as a land of contemplative and mystical religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau saw the mystical religion of India and Asia in general as an alternative to the rational and materialist Protestantism of America.
Later Transcendentalists categorized the religion of India as “Brahmanism.
” James Freeman Clarke, Lydia Maria Child, and Samuel Johnson described Brahmanism in various works of comparative religion.
These Transcendentalists compared religions in order to discover the one Universal Religion that would unite mankind spiritually.
They described Brahmanism as the religion that contributed contemplation, unity, and mysticism to this transcendent Universal Religion.
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