{"product_id":"the-new-metaphysicals-spirituality-and-the-american-religious-imagination-0226042804","title":"The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226042804\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bender, Courtney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican spirituality-with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration-is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But, as The New Metaphysicals makes clear, contemporary American spirituality has historic roots in the nineteenth century and a great deal in common with traditional religious movements. To explore this world, Courtney Bender combines research into the history of the movement with fieldwork in Cambridge, Massachusetts-a key site of alternative religious inquiry from Emerson and William James to today. Through her ethnographic analysis, Bender discovers that a focus on the new, on progress, and on the way spiritual beliefs intersect with science obscures the historical roots of spirituality from its practitioners and those who study it alike-and shape an enduring set of modern religious possibilities in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676027126048,"sku":"NEW0226042804","price":22.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81kXS01ru0L.jpg?v=1779231513","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-new-metaphysicals-spirituality-and-the-american-religious-imagination-0226042804","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}