RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: THE RISE OF THE GODDESS IN THE HINDU TRADITION By Tracy Pintchman A TRANSLATION, ANNOTATION, AND COMMENTARY By C. RECENT STUDIES OF HINDU GODDESSES: THE DEV? G?TĀ: THE SONG OF THE GODDESS. INSIDE-OUT, OUTSIDE-IN: EXISTENTIAL PLACE AND ACADEMIC PRACTICE IN THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN GURU-TRADITIONS: MEDITATION REVOLUTION: A HISTORY AND THEOLOGY OF THE SIDDHA YOGA LINEAGE By Douglas Renfrew Brooks, et al. INSIDE-OUT, OUTSIDE-IN: EXISTENTIAL PLACE AND ACADEMIC PRACTICE IN THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN GURU-TRADITIONS: THE DOUBLE MIRROR: A SKEPTICAL JOURNEY INTO BUDDHIST TANTRA By Stephen Butterfield INSIDE-OUT, OUTSIDE-IN: EXISTENTIAL PLACE AND ACADEMIC PRACTICE IN THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN GURU-TRADITIONS: PSYCHOTHERAPY AND BUDDHISM: TOWARD AN INTEGRATION By Jeffrey B. INSIDE-OUT, OUTSIDE-IN: EXISTENTIAL PLACE AND ACADEMIC PRACTICE IN THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN GURU-TRADITIONS: FEET OF CLAY-SAINTS, SINNERS, AND MADMEN: A STUDY OF GURUS By Anthony Storr TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: RITUAL AND RELIGION IN THE MAKING OF HUMANITY By Roy A. TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: RELIGION: A HUMANIST INTERPRETATION By Raymond Firth TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: ORDERED UNIVERSES: APPROACHES TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION By Morton Klass

TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: CONCEPTUALIZING RELIGION: IMMANENT ANTHROPOLOGISTS, TRANSCENDENT NATIVES, AND UNBOUNDED CATEGORIES By Benson Saler The book ends with reflections upon why human beings need gurus at all, and indicates how those in need of guidance can distinguish the false and dangerous from the genuine and good.TRANSCENDENCE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS THEORIZE RELIGION: IN SEARCH OF THE SACRED: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS By Clinton Bennett Maturity requires us to be able to tolerate doubt. No-one knows, in the sense that gurus claim that they know. It demonstrates that most of us harbour irrational beliefs, and discusses how the human wish for certainty in an insecure world leads to confusing delusion with truth. 'Feet of Clay' is one of Anthony Storr’s most original and illuminating books. It includes both Freud and Jung because, as Storr demonstrates, what ostensibly began as a scientific investigation became, in each case, a secular path to salvation. A guru convinces others that he knows – a persuasive capacity which can bring illumination but which may also and in disaster.Īnthony Storr’s book is a study of some of the best-known gurus, ranging from monsters such as Jim Jones or David Koresh, to saints such as Ignatius of Loyola. Gurus are extraordinary individuals who cast doubt upon current psychiatric distinctions between sanity and madness. Less has been written about the gurus who institute and lead such movements. Since cults have a special appeal to the young, anxious parents have prompted a good deal of research into who joins cults and why. They range from benign, charitable organisations to corrupt, dangerous cults which may end in murder or mass suicide.

There are said to be at least six hundred New Religious Movements in Britain, and many more in other parts of the world. Invariably led by gurus, or 'spiritual leaders', the fruit of these cults are mass suicides in the South American jungle or the self-immolation of hundreds in besieged fortresses. There are many reports of strange cults which enthral their followers and cut themselves off from the world.

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