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How a little-known editor made God a bestseller by helping Americans let go of religion

By Bob Smietana — March 13, 2023
(RNS) — A chance encounter at a party led religion professor Stephen Prothero to rediscover the story of Eugene Exman, a longtime book publisher who helped transform American religion.

‘Distilled Spirits’ traces birth of New Age spirituality

By Kimberly Winston — October 19, 2012

BERKELEY, Calif. (RNS) Without Gerald Heard, the "godfather of New Age," some of the major spiritual developments of 20th-century America might never have happened. And at least one skeptical California newspaperman might never have sobered up. By Kimberly Winston.

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