{"product_id":"the-new-metaphysicals-courtney-bender-9780226042800","title":"The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination","description":"American spirituality--with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration--is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But, as \u003ci\u003eThe New Metaphysicals\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Courtney Bender\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226042804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226042800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.33w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2011","brand":"Courtney Bender","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119452188927,"sku":"9780226042800","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3fda847d-16ed-42be-a80d-4b6e94ec3044.jpg?v=1687409431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-metaphysicals-courtney-bender-9780226042800","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}