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This volume offers an introduction to comparative religion, exploring the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the native traditions of Australia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Emphasizing the inner, rather than the institutional, dimension of these religions, the author devotes special attention to Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism,...
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Huston Smith, the man who brought the world's religions to the West, was born almost a century ago to missionary parents in China during the perilous rise of the Communist Party. Smith's lifelong spiritual journey brought him face-to-face with many of the people who shaped the twentieth century. His extraordinary travels around the globe have taken him to the world's holiest places, where he has practiced religion with many of the great spiritual...
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Kern lecture volume 1, 2002
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The speaker looks back on his life in an entertaining autobiography that examines the often surprising and unpredictable causes and consequences of a life of religious exploration.
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Kern lecture volume 1, 2002
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The speaker looks back on his life in a "bookish autobiography" that uses his works to examine the often surprising and unpredictable causes and consequences of a life of religious exploration.
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In part 1, Jeffrey Mishlove and Huston Smith, author of The world's religions, analyze, compare, and contrast the religious and philosophical traditions of the West, South Asia, and East Asia from a geographical perspective. In part 2 they consider world religion and philosophy from a temporal perspective.