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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 memorable record of Huston Smith’s lifelong endeavor to enrich the inner lives of his fellow humans.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 280
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
26 March 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520270220
Format: Hardcover
“The most excitingly eye-opening . . . serious reading on religion many will feel they have ever encountered.”
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.
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
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