Editing Transcendentalism (section)

==Influence on other movements==
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Transcendentalism is, in many aspects, the first notable American intellectual movement. It has inspired succeeding generations of American intellectuals, as well as some literary movements.<ref name=Coviello></ref>

Transcendentalism influenced the growing movement of "Mental Sciences" of the mid-19th century, which would later become known as the [[New Thought]] movement. New Thought considers Emerson its intellectual father.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571544/New_Thought.html | contribution = New Thought | title = MSN Encarta | access-date = Nov 16, 2007 | publisher = Microsoft | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091102072530/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571544/New_Thought.html | archive-date = 2009-11-02 }}.</ref> [[Emma Curtis Hopkins]] ("the teacher of teachers"), [[Ernest Holmes]] (founder of [[Religious Science]]), [[Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)|Charles]] and [[Myrtle Fillmore]] (founders of [[Unity Church|Unity]]), and [[Malinda Cramer]] and [[Nona L. Brooks]] (founders of [[Divine Science]]) were all greatly influenced by Transcendentalism.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.websyte.com/alan/intachrt.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000824113817/http://websyte.com/alan/intachrt.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2000-08-24 | title = INTA New Thought History Chart | publisher = Websyte }}.</ref>

Transcendentalism is also influenced by [[Hinduism]]. [[Ram Mohan Roy]] (1772–1833), the founder of the [[Brahmo Samaj]], rejected Hindu mythology, but also the Christian trinity.{{sfn|Harris|2009|p=268}} He found that [[Unitarianism]] came closest to true Christianity,{{sfn|Harris|2009|p=268}} and had a strong sympathy for the Unitarians,{{sfn|Kipf|1979|p=3}} who were closely connected to the Transcendentalists.{{sfn|Versluis|1993}} Ram Mohan Roy founded a missionary committee in Calcutta, and in 1828 asked for support for missionary activities from the American Unitarians.{{sfn|Kipf|1979|pp=7–8}} By 1829, Roy had abandoned the Unitarian Committee,{{sfn|Kipf|1979|p=15}} but after Roy's death, the Brahmo Samaj kept close ties to the Unitarian Church,{{sfn|Harris|2009|pp=268–269}} who strove towards a rational faith, social reform, and the joining of these two in a renewed religion.{{sfn|Kipf|1979|p=3}} Its theology was called "[[neo-Vedanta]]" by Christian commentators,{{sfn|Halbfass|1995|p=9}}{{sfn|Rinehart|2004|p=192}} and has been highly influential in the modern popular understanding of Hinduism,{{sfn|King|2002}} but also of modern western spirituality, which re-imported the Unitarian influences in the disguise of the seemingly age-old [[Neo-Vedanta]].{{sfn|King|2002}}{{sfn|Sharf|1995}}{{sfn|Sharf|2000}}