The Huston Smith Reader. Huston Smith

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      Berkeley and Los Angeles, California

      University of California Press, ltd.

      London, England

      © 2012 by Huston Smith

      For acknowledgment of previous publication, please see credits, page 255.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Smith, Huston.

      The Huston Smith reader / edited with an introduction by Jeffery Paine.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-0-520-27022-0 (cloth : alk. paper)

      1. Religion. 2. Religions. I. Paine, Jeffery, 1944– II. Title.

      BL27.S39 2012

      200—dc23 2011030335

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      CONTENTS

       Preview: The Book Now in Your Hands

       Introduction: Grand Tour of All the Worlds

       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 DIMENSIONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE

       3. Two Kinds of teaching

       4. The Sacred Dimensions 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. СКАЧАТЬ