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Introduction to the Special Issue of Religions—“Transcendentalism and the Religious Experience”

Kenneth S. Sacks

Religions August 27, 2018 DOI: 10.3390/rel9090253 (opens in new tab)

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Key points Argues that American scholars must cultivate original thought by engaging with nature and action, rejecting passive reliance on European intellectual traditions.

Abstract

In his 1837 oration “The American Scholar,” Emerson demanded that, above all, […]