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The Huston Smith reader /
For more than sixty years, Huston Smith has not only written and taught about the world's religions, he has lived them. This Reader presents a rich selection of Smith's writings, covering six decades of inquiry and exploration, and ranging from scholarship to memoir. Over his long academic...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preview: The Book Now in Your Hands; Introduction: Grand Tour of All the Worlds; Welcome to the Reader; Book One: A Personal Starting Point; Chapter 1. N o Wasted Journey; Chapter 2. The Way Things Are; Book Two: The Sacred Dimensions of Everyday Life; Chapter 3. Two Kinds of Teaching; Chapter 4. The Sacred Dimensions of Everyday Life; Chapter 5. Light; Chapter 6. The Revolution in Western Thought; Chapter 7. Empirical Metaphysics; Book Three: I Never Met a Religion I Didn't Like; Chapter 8: My Three Other Religions.
- Chapter 9: Explaining FundamentalismChapter 10: What They Have that We Lack: On Native American Religion; Chapter 11: Three Ways of Relating to the World. Three Geographies. Three Religious Traditions; Chapter 12: Shinto: A Japanese Sense of the Sacred; Chapter 13: The Spiritual Heritage of India; Chapter 14: The Importance of the Buddha; Chapter 15: Tibetan Chanting; Chapter 16: The Relevance of the Great Religions for the Modern World; Book Four: The Big Picture; Chapter 17: Educating the Intellect: On Opening the Eye of the Heart; Chapter 18: Do Drugs Have Religious Import?
- Chapter 19: The Levels of RealityChapter 20: The Levels of Selfhood; Chapter 21: Western Philosophy as a Great Religion; Book Five. Return to the Personal; Chapter 22: Encountering God; Chapter 23: Reflections upon Turning Ninety; Conclusion: The Sacred Unconscious; Afterword: The Man Who Took Religion Seriously: Huston Smith in Context; Works by Huston Smith; Credits.