# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91EDvXPW2k

# data[].attributes.body
It was born from a debate between “New Light” theologians, who believed that religion should focus on a emotional  experience and “Old Light” opponents, who valued reason in their religious approach. The transcendentalists embraced a theory of the individual that rested on a distinction between what they called “reason” and “understanding”—words they used in ways that seem unfamiliar, even strange, to modern ears. Reason, as they defined it, had little to do with rationality.

# data[].attributes.body
In 1832, Emerson left the Unitarian church (where he was a minister) to focus solely on writing and teaching about transcendentalism. His experience as a minister made him an excellent public speaker.

# data[].attributes.body
Because the leading transcendentalists began to focus their efforts on eliminating chattel slavery, transcendentalism faced by the 1850s. The ideas and writings of the transcendentalists, however, continued to inspire later reform movements, including the movement for women’s suffrage, and the labor movement.

# data[].attributes.body
Every person’s goal, therefore, should be liberation from the confines of “understanding” and the cultivation of “reason.” Each individual should strive to “transcend” the limits of the intellect and allow the emotions, the “soul,” to create an “original relation to the Universe.”

# data[].attributes.body
Emerson was the leader of the Transcendentalism Movement. he declared that individuals could acquire personal fulfillment through nature. He suggested that God could be found in nature and that spending time in nature was the closest man could come to the divine. Another of Emerson’s most famous works was the 1841 essay “Self-Reliance,” a defense of individualism, which emphasized nonconformity and personal responsibility.

# data[].attributes.body
Many Transcendentalism books continue to be popular in today’s society.