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In 'The Secular Religion of Franklin Merrell-Wolff: An Intellectual History of Anti-intellectualism in Modern America', Dave Vliegenthart offers an account of the life and teachings of the modern American mystic Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887?1985), who combined secular and religious sources from eastern and western traditions in order to elaborate and legitimate his metaphysical claim to the realization of a transcendental reality beyond reason

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Franklin Merrell-Wolff -- Secular Religion -- Anti-Intellectualism -- Outline of This Study -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Origination (1887-1914) -- Religion -- Childhood: Evangelical Religion -- Adolescence: Metaphysical Religion -- Adulthood: Oriental(ist) Religion -- Philosophy -- Pragmatism -- Psychology -- New Thought -- New Psychology -- Chapter 2 Investigation (1914-1936) -- Religion -- The Temple of the People -- The Arcane School -- The International Sufi Movement -- The United Lodge of Theosophists -- The Benares League of America -- The Assembly of Man -- Philosophy -- Einstein's Philosophy of "Religion" -- Keyserling's Religious "Philosophy" -- Psychology -- Jung's "Creative Phantasy" -- Chapter 3 Realization (1936-1978) -- Three Preliminary Realizations -- First Fundamental Realization -- Second Fundamental Realization -- Introception -- Introceptualism -- Religion -- Indian Idealism -- Philosophy -- German Idealism -- Psychology -- The Human Potential Movement -- Chapter 4 Routinization (1978-Today) -- Religion -- Cults, New Religions, and Emergent Traditions -- Philosophy -- Perennialism versus Constructivism -- Psychology -- Autobiographically "Advaitizing" Immediatism -- Conclusion -- Social Crises and New Religions -- Competition and Rationalization -- Secular-Religious Theology -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.