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Occupation
Professor of Philosophy
Spouse
Gail Needleman
Website
jacobneedleman.com
Jacob Needleman (October 6, 1934 – November 28, 2022) was an American philosopher, author, and religious scholar.
Needleman was Jewish[1][2] and was educated at Harvard University, Yale University, and the University of Freiburg, Germany.[3] He was deeply involved in the Gurdjieff Work and the Gurdjieff Foundation of San Francisco.[4] He was a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at San Francisco State University[5][6] and is said to have "popularized the term 'new religious movements'."[7] He was a former visiting professor at the Duxx Graduate School of Business Leadership in Monterrey, Mexico, and former director of the center for the study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also served as a research associate at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, a research fellow at Union Theological Seminary, Adjunct Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of California Medical School and guest Professor of Religious Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris (1992).[8] Needleman was honored by the New York Open Center in New York City in 2006.[9][10] Needleman also narrated classical religious texts in audiobook format, including the Taoist Tao Te Ching and the Hindu Bhagavad Gita.
^By David Ian Miller, April 16, 2007, "FINDING MY RELIGION / Philosopher Jacob Needleman asked one of his many books, 'Why Can't We Be Good?' (Pt. 2)", San Francisco Chronicle
^D. Patrick Miller, Beyond Belief: Jacob Needleman On God Without Religion, The Sun, December 2011
^"Bio: Jacob Needleman", website
^[1]
^Department of Philosophy - Jacob Needleman
^The Essential Marcus Aurelius Jacob Needleman, John P. Piazza - 2008 - Page 111
^Horowitz, Mitch (February 25, 2011). "When Does A Religion Become A Cult?". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
^"Jacob Needleman | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.sfsu.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
^"Gala Honorees" Archived November 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, New York Open Center website
^Time and the Soul: Where Has All the Meaningful Time Gone By John Cleese, Jacob Needleman, via GGbooks
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as a Social Thinker", Re-vision Vol 15, 1992; and Antoine Faivre, JacobNeedleman, Karen Voss; Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Crossroad Publishing, 1992...
Wiley-Blackwell 2007 pp. 1–2 Ewert Cousins, preface to Antoine Faivre and JacobNeedleman, Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Crossroad Publishing 1992. Dalai Lama...
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Weisberg, Jacob (November 28, 2004). "'I Am Charlotte Simmons': Peeping Tom". The New York Times. "A Note from Dean: Deborah Needleman Is Departing"...
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through Buddhist eyes" Several of Pallis' essays were also included in JacobNeedleman's The Sword of Gnosis. After his final journey to Tibet, while living...
Deborah Needleman is an American editor and writer. She was editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine and WSJ.. She was also the creator...
(out of print, co-editor with JacobNeedleman) On the Way to Self Knowledge (out of print, co-editor with JacobNeedleman) Toropov and Hansen (2002) p...
the case: Modern Esoteric Spirituality (1992) edited by Faivre and JacobNeedleman, Access to Western Esotericism (1994) by Faivre, New Age Religion and...
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