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    <mods:title>Transcendental Development: A Meditation on the Socioeconomic History of Fairfield, Iowa</mods:title>
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  <mods: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.</mods:abstract>
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    <mods:namePart>Lipsey, Adam Z.</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Zipp, Samuel</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Brown University. History</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:copyrightDate>2020</mods:copyrightDate>
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  <mods:note type="thesis">Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020</mods:note>
  <mods:note displayLabel="Concentration">History</mods:note>
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    <mods:topic>Entrepreneurship</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Spirituality</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>History</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>United States</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Iowa--Fairfield</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Rural development</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Transcendental Meditation</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Maharishi International University</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>American history</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Iowa</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Midwest</mods:topic>
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  <mods:identifier type="doi">10.26300/q8dn-bw35</mods:identifier>
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