TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Huston
AU  - Paine,Jeffery
TI  - The Huston Smith reader
SN  - 9780520952355
AV  - BL27 .S39 2012eb
U1  - 200 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religions
KW  - religion (discipline)
KW  - aat
KW  - religions (belief systems, cultures)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Essays
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - 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 career, Smith's tireless enthusiasm for religious ideas has offered readers both in and outside the academy a fresh understanding of what religion is and what makes it meaningful. The Huston Smith Reader offers a comprehensive guide to understanding religion and spirituality as well as a memora
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