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Versluis: Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance - Paul Ferguson - 04-11-2023 Uploaded by the author so OK to download. This site seems safe to download material from. "In American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions, I detailed the immense impact that the Euro-American discovery of Asian religions had not only on European Romanticism, but above all, on American Transcendentalism. There I argued that the Transcendentalists’ discovery of the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, the Upanishads, and other world scriptures was critical in the entire movement, pivotal not only for the well-known figures like Emerson and Thoreau, but also for lesser known later figures like Samuel Johnson and William Rounseville Alger. That Transcendentalism emerged out of this new knowledge of the world’s religious traditions I have no doubt. But there were also pre-existing traditions in western Europe that contributed a great deal to the emergence, not only of Transcendentalism, but also of what has come to be known as the American Renaissance, that extraordinary period during the midnineteenth century when so much of American literature came into being." https://dokumen.pub/the-esoteric-origins-of-the-american-renaissance-0195138872-9780195138870-9781423762287.html