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Enlightenment After the Enlightenment: American Transformations of Asian Contemplative Traditions |
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| 作者 |
Gleig, Ann Louise (著)
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| 出版日期 | 2011 |
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| 頁次 | 358 |
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| 出版者 | Rice University |
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| 出版者網址 |
https://www.rice.edu/
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| 出版地 | Houston, TX, US [休士頓, 德克薩斯州, 美國] |
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| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
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| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
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| 學位類別 | 博士 |
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| 校院名稱 | Rice University |
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| 系所名稱 | Religious Studies |
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| 指導教授 | Jeffrey J Kripal |
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| 畢業年度 | 2011 |
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| 關鍵詞 | Philosophy; Religion; Theology; East-west; Asian religion; Psychology of religion; New religious movements; Spirituality; Alternative religions; Contemplative traditions; Comparative |
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| 摘要 | My dissertation traces the contemporary American assimilation of Asian enlightenment traditions and discourses. Through a close reading of three communities, I consider how Asian traditions and ideas have been refracted through the psychological, political, and economic lenses of American culture. One of my chapters, for example, discusses how the American Insight community has attempted to integrate the enlightenment teachings of Theravada Buddhism with the humanistic, democratic, and pluralistic values of the European Enlightenment. A second chapter traces the American gum Andrew Cohen's transformation from a Neo-Advaita teacher to a leading proponent of "evolutionary enlightenment," a teaching that places traditional Indian understandings of nonduality in an evolutionary context. Cohen's early period shows the further deinstitutionalization of traditional Advaita Vedanta within the radically decontextualized Neo-Advaitin network, and evolutionary enlightenment engages and popularizes another less-known but influential Hindu lineage, namely that of Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga. a A third chapter examines contemporary psychospiritual attempts to incorporate psychoanalytic theory into Asian philosophy in order to reconcile American concerns with individual development with Asian mystical goals of self-transcendence. In conclusion, I argue that the contemporary American assimilation of Asian enlightenment traditions is marked by a number of trends including: (I) a move away from the rhetoric and privileging of experience that scholars such as Robert Sharf have shown to be characteristic of the modem Western understanding of Asian mysticism; and (2) an embrace of world-affirming Tantric forms of Asian spirituality over world-negating renouncer traditions such as Theravada Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta. I also reflect on how the cultural shift from the modem to postmodern has affected East-West integrative spiritualities. |
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| 點閱次數 | 341 |
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| 建檔日期 | 2023.05.03 |
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| 更新日期 | 2023.07.06 |
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