The New Religions - Hardcover

Jacob Needleman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385034490 ISBN 13: 9780385034494

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, 1970

Synopsis

Now restored to print, here is philosopher Jacob Needleman?s groundbreaking study of America?s alternative spiritual movements, with a new introduction by the author.

Originally published in 1970, The New Religions was the first full-scale study of alternative spirituality in America. It remains unparalleled for the intellectual depth and seriousness with which it regards Eastern, New Age, and alternative faiths on the American landscape.

About this title

About the Author:

The acclaimed author of The American Soul, Why Can’t We Be Good? and Money and the Meaning of Life, Jacob Needleman is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, and former Director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, CA.

Review:

"The best survey of transplanted Oriental mysticism in America."
-Theodore Roszak

"Of all books published to date on today's 'spiritual revolution,' Jacob Needleman's The New Religions is clearly superior . . . indispensable and invaluable."
- Robert Galbreath, The Journal of Popular Culture

"Needleman is the first thoughtful author to present the teachings of the new spiritual renaissance to the general public."
-San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday & Company
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0385034490
• ISBN 13: 9780385034494
• Binding: Hardcover