human potential movements

English

Noun

human potential movements

1. plural of human potential movement
   • 1997, Wouter J. Hanegraaff, New Age Religion and Western Culture, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 48:

     I have not listed the many case-studies that have been published about specific Human Potential movements, particularly about est.

   • 2001, Ruth Prince, The New Age in Glastonbury, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 21:

     New Age 'world affirmers' fall into the same bracket as the number of less obviously religious Human Potential Movements, such as est (Erhard Seminar Training) (Rupert 1992).

   • 2004, Hans A. Baer, Toward an Integrative Medicine, AltaMira Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     According to Westley (1983:185), “most human potential movements, despite the temptations of tax shelters, overtly refute the religious label and claim to be therapies.”

   • 2005, Jeffrey John Kripal, On the Edge of the Future, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 274:

     ... it is much more important — at least for the purposes of this chapter — to understand how popular evangelical writers view the New Age, humanism, and, especially, the human potential movements and their potential consequences.

   • 2010, Win McCormack, The Rajneesh Chronicles: The True Story of the Cult that Unleashed the First Act of Bioterrorism on U.S. Soil, Tin House Books, →ISBN, page 199:

     Sarah, a therapist whose professional discipline falls generally under the rubrics of the closely connected humanistic psychology and human potential movements, first became interested in Rajneesh when she read a book of his collected discourses ...

   • 2012, Erika Wilson, Emotions and Spirituality in Religions and Spiritual Movements, University Press of America, →ISBN:

     Also on offer by this spiritual supermarket are the neopagan religions, with their shamans, druids, witches, and sorcerers; the newly founded Satanists and certain suicidal groups; offshoots from the Human Potential movements of the 1960s and from various types of psychology ...

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