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 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 guideto understanding religion and spirituality as well as a memora.

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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 aReligion I Didn't Like; Chapter 8: My Three Other Religions.

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 TookReligion Seriously: Huston Smith in Context; Works by Huston Smith; Credits.

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…