Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa Tapa blanda - 2014

University of Iowa Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback / softback. New. The Indian spiritual entrepreneur Maharishi Mahesh Yogi took the West by storm in the 1960s and '70s, charming Baby Boomers fed up with war and social upheaval with his message of meditation and peace. Heeding his call, two thousand followers moved to tiny Fairfield, Iowa, to set up their own university on the campus of a failed denominational college. Soon, they started a school for prekindergarten through high school, allowing followers to immerse themselves in Transcendental Meditation from toddlerhood through PhDs. Although Fairfield's longtime residents were relieved to see that their new neighbours were clean-cut and respectably dressed - not the wild-haired, drug-using hippies they had feared - the newcomers nevertheless quickly began to remake the town. Stores selling exotic goods popped up, TM followers built odd-looking homes that modelled the guru's rules for peace-inspiring architecture, and the new university knocked down a historic chapel, even as… Leer más

Univ of Iowa Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 212 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.