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Author:   Huston Smith ,  Jeffery Paine ,  Jeffery Paine
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520270220

ISBN 10:   0520270223
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   26 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Preview: The Book Now in Your Hands Introduction: Grand Tour of All the World Welcome to the Reader Huston Smith Book One: A Personal Starting Point 1. No Wasted Journey 2. The Way Things Are Book Two: The Sacred Dimension of Everyday Life 3. Two Kinds of Teaching 4. The Sacred Dimension of Everyday Life 5. Light 6. The Revolution in Western Thought 7. Empirical Metaphysics Book Three: I Never Met a Religion I Didn't Like 8. My Three Other Religions 9. Explaining Fundamentalism 10. What They Have That We Lack: On Native American Religion 11. Three Ways of Relating to the World. Three Geographies. Three Religious Traditions 12. Shinto: A Japanese Sense of the Sacred 13. The Spiritual Heritage of India 14. The Importance of the Buddha 15. Tibetan Chanting 16. The Relevance of the Great Religions for the Modern World Book Four: The Big Picture 17. Educating the Intellect: On Opening the Eye of the Heart 18. Do Drugs Have Religious Import? 19. The Levels of Reality 20. The Levels of Selfhood 21. Western Philosophy as a Great Religion Book Five: Return to the Personal 22. Encountering God 23. Reflections upon Turning Ninety Conclusion: The Sacred Unconscious Afterword: The Man Who Took Religion Seriously: Huston Smith in Context Dana Sawyer Works by Huston Smith Credits

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The most excitingly eye-opening ... serious reading on religion many will feel they have ever encountered. --Booklist A lively and informative compilation of Smith's scholarly writing, interviews, and memoirs. --Foreword

The most excitingly eye-opening ... serious reading on religion many will feel they have ever encountered. -- Ray Olson Booklist 20120301 A great summing up of Smith's work over the last half-century. -- Louis Sahagun Los Angeles Times Book Review 20120624 A lively and informative compilation of Smith's scholarly writing, interviews, and memoirs. -- Kristine Morris Foreword 20120301 A terrific sampling of Huston Smith's work over many years. -- David Crumm Read The Spirit 20120507 A wonderful selection of world religion expert Huston Smith's writings over a 60-year period. Spirituality & Practice 20120718

Author Information

Huston Smith is regarded as one of the most prominent authorities on religions of the world. His classic text, The World's Religions, has seen multiple editions and has sold in excess of three million copies. He has been the subject of a Bill Moyers' PBS series called ""The Wisdom of Faith"" and is the author of numerous books, including Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief, The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life, and The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition. Jeffery Paine is the author of Father India, Re-enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West, and Adventures with the Buddha.

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