SANTA CRUZ SPIRITUALITY

Fourth edition

Santa Cruz, California.

Previous title: Santa Cruz California: History: Spirituality: Associations

Last updated July, 2011

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CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND AND METHOD OF THIS STUDY

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Background of the project

Sources of information

Principles of organization

Use of the list

CHAPTER 2 ASSOCIATIONS

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#1 Catholic and Episcopalian (Western liturgical family)

#1.1 Roman Catholic Church: local assoc.

founded before 1901

#1.2 Roman Catholic Church: local assoc.

founded after 1900

#1.3 Recently founded Catholic separatist

groups

#1.4 Episcopalian

#2 Eastern Orthodox (Eastern liturgical family)

#3 Lutheran (Lutheran family)

#3.1 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

(ELCA)

#3.2 Missouri Synod Lutheran

#3.3 Various Lutheran

#4 Presbyterian and Congregational (Reformed-

Presbyterian family)

#4.1 Presbyterian

#4.2 United Church of Christ

#4.3 Congregational

#4.4 Reformed Church in the United States

#5 Pietist-Methodist (Pietist-Methodist family)

#5.1 Methodist

#5.2 Free Methodist

#5.3 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

#5.4 German Methodism

#5.5 Scandinavian Pietism

#6 Holiness (Holiness family)

#6.1 Holiness Bands

#6.2 Christian and Missionary Alliance

#6.3 Church of God (Holiness rather than

Pentecostal)

#6.4 Church of the Nazarene

#6.5 Salvation Army

#6.6 Various Holiness

#7 Pentecostal (Pentecostal family)

#7.1 Various Pentecostal, no longer in

existence

#7.2 Assemblies of God

#7.3 International Church of the Foursquare

Gospel

#7.4 Pentecostal-United

#7.5 Pentecostal Holiness

#7.6 Pentecostal Church of God of America

#7.7 Various Pentecostal

#8 European Free-Church (European Free-Church

family)

#8.1 Quaker

#8.2 Mennonite Brethren

#9 Baptist and Christian Church (Baptist family)

#9.1 Various Baptist; no longer in existence

#9.2 Southern Baptist Convention

#9.3 American Baptist Churches U.S.A.

#9.4 American Baptist Association

#9.5 Conservative Baptist Association

#9.6 Baptist: exist in 2010; affiliation not

ascertained

#9.7 Christian Church/Church of Christ

#10 Independent Fundamentalist (Independent

Fundamentalist family)

#10.1 Calvary Chapel

#10.2 Various Independent Fundamentalist

#11 Adventist (Adventist family)

#11.1 Advent Christian Church

#11.2 Church of God (Adventist)

#11.3 Seventh-Day Adventist

#11.4 Jehovahπs Witnesses

#12 Liberal (Liberal family)

#12.1 Unitarian Universalist

#12.2 Transcendentalist

#12.3 Various Liberal

#13 Latter-day Saints (Latter-day Saints family)

#13.1 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Saints

#13.2 Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter Day Saints

#14 Communal (Communal family)

#14.1 Ohlone People

#14.2 Romani People

#14.3 Communes founded before the 1960s

#14.4 Hippie communes of the 1960s counterculture

#14.5 Communes founded since the 1960s

counterculture

#15 Christian Science-Metaphysical (Christian

Science-Metaphysical family)

#15.1 Christian Science

#15.2 Various Metaphysical

#16 Spiritualist, Psychic, and New Age (Spiritualist,

Psychic, and New Age family)

#16.1 Classical American Spiritualism

#16.2 American Spiritualist Recent in Origin

#16.3 New Age

#17 Ancient Wisdom (Ancient Wisdom

family)

#17.1 Theosophy

#17.2 Anthroposophy

#17.3 Various Ancient Wisdom

#18 Nature Reverence (Nature Reverence family)

#18.1 Shamanism

#18.2 Neo-Pagan and Wiccan

#19 Middle Eastern (Middle Eastern family)

#19.1 Zoroastrian

#19.2 Judaism

#19.3 Islam

#19.4 Baha'i

#20 Eastern (Eastern family)

#20.1 Hindu

#20.2 Jain

#20.3 Sikh

#20.4 Buddhist

#20.41 Miscellaneous Buddhist groups

#20.42 Japanese

#20.43 Tibetan

#20.44 Burmese

#20.45 Vietnamese

#20.5 Taoist/Confucian

#20.6 Shinto

#21 Other

#21.1 Outside all categories

#21.2 Generically Christian

#21.3 No longer in existence; category not

ascertained

#21.4 Some organizations that have a spiritual base

#21.5 Some oganizations that have a merely apparent

spiritual base

CHAPTER 3 TABLES

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CHAPTER 4 HISTORICAL SUMMARY

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CHAPTER 5 PARTICULARS

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Meaning of the term spirituality

Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christianity

Pentecostalism

Spirit Fruit Society

Ohlone people

Mission period in Santa Cruz

Romani people

Classical American Spiritualism

Kabbalah; divination and tarot; Western mystery schools

South and East Asian spiritualities

Popular practices based on South and East Asian cosmologies

Christian Endeavor Societies

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Some organizations that have a spiritual base

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF ASSOCIATIONS, GROUPINGS, AND ALTERNATE NAMES

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There are non-commercially printed copies in libraries that have particular use for it as a reference, and anyone can print a copy from the PDF of the whole. The Santa Cruz Public Librariesπ electronic version is identical in content, but has been adapted for the convenience of online users.

Santa Cruz spirituality is listed in WorldCat; its OCLC number is 94531155; its Library of Congress classification is BL2527.C2; its Dewey Decimal classification is 200.0979.

CORRECTIONS TO 2010 PRINTED VERSION OF

SANTA CRUZ SPIRITUALITY

In preparing to transmit the 2010 text to the Santa Cruz Public Library for inclusion in the libraryπs local history website, I discovered several places where it needed correction. The changes have, of course, been made in the libraryπs website, and they have been made in the basic electronic version of the work, but they have not been made in the few copies of the ≥2010 Update of the Fourth (2009) Edition≤ that were printed and distributed in June, 2010. They are:

1. In Chapter 1 Background and Method of this Study, section entitled ≥Background of the project,≤ add to the credits, ≥Inclusion in the website has been made possible by the diligent collegial collaboration of Ann Young, Library Webmaster, and her assistants, Jessica Teeter and Diane Cowen.≤

2. In #1.4, Episcopalian, St. Johnπs Episcopal Church is in Aptos, rather than Capitola, where it was, however, for over one hundred years.

3. In #7.7 Various Pentecostal, delete the entry for New Earth Tribe. The information stated in it may be accurate, but I was not able to verify its accuracy when I returned to it.

4. In #9.5 Conservative Baptist Association, the general website should be dated 2010.

5. In #19.3 Islam, Rumi Academy, the entry should read:

Rumi Academy is a center of the Threshold Society, an organization dedicated to the study and practice of Sufism in the Mevlevi tradition. "In 1999 Camille and Kabir Helminski moved from Putney, Vermont to Aptos, California. Under Camille's and Kabir's direction The Threshold Society is working to apply traditional Mevlevi principles to the conditions of contemporary life. In addition to their continuing work as spiritual teachers, they are now involved in several creative projects in writing, recording, and educational consulting." (www.sufism.org 2010)

On a visit that took me only to its gate in December, 2007, I was assured by a neighbor that it was indeed a place of Muslim Sufism, but that there was not much traffic to and from it. The Rumi Academy street address is 270 Quarter Horse Lane, Watsonville CA 95076, tel. 685-1613. (2010 White Pages) At this same address, but with telephone number 685-3995, is the Threshold Society Bookstore, also called "Threshold Productions." (www.sufism.org 2010)

6. In the Alphbetical Index of Associations, Groupings, and Alternate Names, delete the second - and erroneous - entry for Taungpulu Kaba-Aye Monastery.

7. In Chapter 5 Particulars, in Ohlone people, read ≥local communities≤ in place of ≥tribelets.≤

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ADDITIONS TO 2010 PRINTED VERSION OF

SANTA CRUZ SPIRITUALITY

Having come across a substantial trove of Ohlone legends, I have incorporated them into Chapter 5 Particulars, ≥Ohlone People.≤ Immediately following that essay I have added an essay, ≥Mission Period in Santa Cruz,≤ containing information about Mission Santa Cruz and about the Californios.