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American Transcendentalism & ThoreauEssay title: American Transcendentalism & Thoreau1.American TranscendentalismTHE EMERGENCE OF the Transcendentalists as an identifiable movement took place during the late 1820s and 1830s, but the roots of their religious philosophy extended much farther back into American religious history. Transcendentalism and evangelical Protestantism followed separate evolutionary branches from American Puritanism, taking as their.