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Author Taves, Ann, 1952- author.

Title Revelatory events : three case studies of the emergence of new spiritual paths / Ann Taves
Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016

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Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Illustrations and Tables ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; INTRODUCTION ; PART 1. Making Meaning ; Case Study. A Restored Church ; Chapter 1. Translation ; Chapter 2. Materialization ; Chapter 3. Beginnings ; Case Study. An Anonymous Fellowship
Chapter 4. Stories Chapter 5. Fellowship ; Chapter 6. Seeking ; Case Study. A Course in Miracles ; Chapter 7. Emergence ; Chapter 8. Teaching(s) ; Chapter 9. Roles ; PART 2. Creating Paths ; Chapter 10. Groups ; Chapter 11. Selves ; Chapter 12. Motives ; CONCLUSION
Appendix. Discussion of Methods Appendix Charts ; Bibliography ; Author Index ; Subject Index
Summary Unseen presences. Apparitions. Hearing voices. Although some people would find such experiences to be distressing and seek clinical help, others perceive them as transformative. Occasionally, these unusual phenomena give rise to new spiritual paths or religious movements. Revelatory Events provides fresh insights into what is perhaps the bedrock of all religious belief--the claim that otherworldly powers are active in human affairs. Ann Taves looks at Mormonism, Alcoholics Anonymous, and A Course in Miracles--three cases in which insiders claimed that a spiritual presence guided the emergence of a new spiritual path. In the 1820s, Joseph Smith, Jr., reportedly translated the Book of Mormon from ancient gold plates unearthed with the help of an angel. Bill Wilson cofounded AA after having an ecstatic experience while hospitalized for alcoholism in 1934. Helen Schucman scribed the words of an inner voice that she attributed to Jesus, which formed the basis of her 1976 best-selling self-study course. In each case, Taves argues, the sense of a guiding presence emerged through a complex, creative interaction between a founding figure with unusual mental abilities and an initial set of collaborators who were drawn into the process by diverse motives of their own. A major work of scholarship, this compelling and accessible book traces the very human processes behind such events
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 03, 2016)
Subject Alcoholics Anonymous.
SUBJECT Alcoholics Anonymous fast
Course in Miracles. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88282499
Course in Miracles fast
Subject Experience (Religion) -- Case studies
Revelation -- Case studies
Spiritual life -- Case studies
Spirituality -- Case studies
Latter Day Saint churches.
Mormonism.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Inspiration & Personal Growth.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- General.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Devotional.
RELIGION -- Spirituality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
Experience (Religion)
Latter Day Saint churches
Revelation
Spiritual life
Spirituality
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1400884462
9781400884469