- Title Information
- Title
- Transcendental Development: A Meditation on the Socioeconomic History of Fairfield, Iowa
- Abstract
- In spring of 1973, the Southeastern Iowa city of Fairfield lost its beloved Parsons College to bankruptcy. What followed in the coming months was unforeseen: an Indian meditation guru decided to relocate his name-sake Maharishi International University to Fairfield to replace the Parsons campus. Over the 1970s, thousands of followers descended on Fairfield, leaving many self-proclaimed "townies" reeling over the perceived social and religious corruption of their insular, Christian community. Despite this resentment, the meditators cultivated a national reputation for entrepreneurship, and as saviors of a town “ready to blow away.” Yet a deeper look into local history reveals that the meditators did not fundamentally change or save Fairfield. Rather, popular claims to the contrary are part of a narrative perpetuated by meditator and non-meditator alike, tied up in myths of what rural America is and is not. Fairfield, Iowa from the early-1970s onward is at once a story about occluded history and the clash of identity in the rural Midwest.
- Name:
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- Name Part
- Lipsey, Adam Z.
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- Name Part
- Zipp, Samuel
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- Brown University. History
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- sponsor
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2020
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- text
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- born digital
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- Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
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- theses
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Spirituality
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- History
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- United States
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- Topic
- Iowa--Fairfield
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- Rural development
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- Transcendental Meditation
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- Maharishi International University
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- American history
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- Iowa
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- Midwest
- Identifier:
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- 10.26300/q8dn-bw35
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