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Legacies of Resistance: Emerson, Buddhism, and Richard Wright’s Pragmatist Poetics
Review of International American Studies, 2023 Emerson’s affinity with Buddhism has been the source of much controversy, and his adaptation of the doctrine translated as Buddhist “indifference” has been construed as stifling resistance to social injustice.
Anita Patterson
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A Transcendentalist Nature Religion
Religions, 2017 Scholars of religion have often pointed to the Transcendentalists as progenitors of a distinct tradition of nature religion in the United States. Nevertheless, this work has not fully dealt with the problematic qualities of “nature” in light of growing ...
Nicholas Aaron Friesner
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ARAB ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN NINTEENTH- CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE [PDF]
آداب الرافدين, 1978 In 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson asked American scholars to tear Ameri- ca away from lavish adherence to European thought and literary models. enthusiastically received, address entitled The American have listened too long to the courtly * In his famous ...
Anas Al-Shaikh Ali
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Water Resources Research, Volume 61, Issue 12, December 2025.Abstract Principled pragmatism is a broad and expanding approach to water policy research, especially in the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. These studies advocate policies that are both pragmatic, in the ordinary language sense of the term, and principled.
James L. Wescoat Jr. +2 more
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Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Volume 38, Issue 4, October 2025.ABSTRACT Cooperation and trust are critical parts of many relationships. However, such relationships are often studied in siloed ways, leading to incomplete explanations of behavior (e.g., from the point of view of a buyer or a seller, but not necessarily both). This paper makes three contributions to broadening this perspective.
Richard P. Bagozzi +5 more
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Sovereignty of the Living Individual: Emerson and James on Politics and Religion
Religions, 2017 William James and Ralph Waldo Emerson are both committed individualists. However, in what do their individualisms consist and to what degree do they resemble each other?
Stephen S. Bush
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“Atom by Atom, All the World into a New Form”: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Theory of Reform
Review of International American Studies, 2023 The idea of dissent has often been discussed in association with the works of the Transcendentalists, who greatly influenced the literary and philosophical landscape of the United States in the 19th century.
Daphne Orlandi
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 343-358, September 2025.This article expands upon a central aspect of Holiness evangelist Phoebe Palmer's (1807–1874) theology, which has been only tangentially mentioned by scholars: her gendered identity of motherhood. It first considers how Palmer narrated the deaths of her first two sons in her spiritual narrative The Way of Holiness as divine punishment for her ...
Layla Koch
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 2, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT In light of recent demands to diversify and decolonize museums, which have influenced curatorial practices the world over, this article examines how the botanical gardens of The Huntington in Southern California communicate colonial legacies of their plant collections to the visiting public.
Vibe Nielsen
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Review of International American Studies, 2020 After offering some preliminary remarks on the notion of what makes a “captive mind,” the article shifts its attention to one of the most significant and yet relatively neglected early essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the essay “War.” This text, I argue ...
Giorgio Mariani
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