Lola Williamson is a scholar of new religious movements, and this New York University Press monograph is her scholarly study of Transcendental Meditation and comparable Hindu-inspired meditation movements as a distinct category of new religion in America, including their initiation ceremonies and the secrecy historically attached to the personally assigned mantra. Its strength is that it treats these movements as a serious object of religious studies rather than dismissing them as merely therapeutic techniques. This atlas cites it here only for the documented access rule around the mantra, never for any content. Its limit is that it is a study of the American reception of these movements specifically, not of their Indian sources.
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Published by New York University Press as Lola Williamson's scholarly study of Hindu-inspired new religious movements, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesScholarly study of Transcendental Meditation and comparable movements, including the initiation ceremony and the secrecy attached to the assigned mantra. Cited here only for the access rule, never for any content.
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AuthorLola Williamson
PublisherNew York University Press
Publication Year2010
Source TypeMonograph
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This source names New York directly: "of new religious movements, and this New York University Press monograph is her scholarly study of Transcendental Meditation and comparable Hindu-inspired meditation movements as a distinct category..."
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This source backs 31 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Disciplines, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.
- Mantras, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
- Subcategories, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Subtle Energies, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
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