populiser

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populiser (plural populisers)

  1. Alternative form of populizer
    • 2009, Michael T. Van Dyke, "Kenneth Rexroth’s Integrative Vision: Anarchism, Poetry and the Religious Experience in Post-World War II San Francisco”, in Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives, edited by Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), page 45.
      The embrace of Zen was fed from three sources: the returning G. I.’s who had experienced Asian culture while serving in the Pacific theatre; the writings of such Zen populisers as Daisetz Suzuki and Alan Watts; and the growing Asian-American population, especially on the West coast, that had brought with them, or carried down, inherited religious sensibilities.

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