Transcendental Meditation and the Art of Living Foundation
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1. | Title | Title of document | Transcendental Meditation and the Art of Living Foundation - AoL East and West |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen; University of Tromsø; Norway |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Milda Ališauskienė; Vytautas Magnus University; Lithuania |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | James R. Lewis; University of Tromsø; Norway |
3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies |
4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Transcendental Meditation (TM) ; Art of Living Foundation (AoL); NRM and Mass Media |
6. | Description | Abstract | This chapter summarizes the history of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and its history in the West (and especially in North America), chronicling periods of less or more mainstreaming on TM’s part – moving from world peace and psychedelics in the Beatles era to science as a way of attracting the ‘Average Joanna’ practitioner in later years. The chapter also examines schisms from TM, including the Robin Carlsen case and, notably, that of the Art of Living Foundation (AoL). AoL became a global movement in a relative short period of time. In addition to exploring the likelihood of schisms from AoL, the chapter also assesses controversial (and non-controversial) interactions between AoL, TM and the mass media. |
7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Oct-2026 |
10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
11. | Type | Type | case study |
12. | Format | File format | |
13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/22334 |
14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.22334 |
15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; AoL East and West |
16. | Language | English=en | en |
18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
international, contemporary |
19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |