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Forgotten Truth: The Primordial Traditionby Huston SmithISBN 006090576X (0-06-090576-X)
Softcover, Harper & Row Limited
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The Illustrated Rumi: A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet of the Soulby Reynold A. Nicholson, Manuela Dunn-Mascetti, Philip Dunn, Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Huston SmithISBN 006062017X (0-06-062017-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditionsby Huston SmithISBN 0060674407 (0-06-067440-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions'Book summary:Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and primal religions, we find refreshing and fascinating presentations of both the differences and the similarities among the worldwide religious traditions.
The approach is at once classic and contemporary, retaining all the empathy, eloquence, and erudition that millions of readers love about the earlier edition, while being edited and designed for a contemporary general readership. This delightful marriage of engaging text and remarkable pictures vividly brings to life the scope and vision of Huston Smith's expertise and insight.
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Islam: A Concise Introductionby Huston SmithISBN 0060095571 (0-06-009557-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islam: A Concise Introduction'Book summary:Going well beyond the masterful presentation of Buddhism in the bestselling The World's Religions, Huston Smith and his premier student Philip Novak offer an expert, contemporary, yet highly readable and incisive guide to the heart of this vibrantly diverse and rapidly growing tradition. Smith is universally regarded as the leading authority on the world's religious traditions, and Novak is an award-winning professor of world religions and a Buddhist practitioner immersed in the contemporary worlds of American and Asian Buddhism. Smith and Novak respectfully cover the essential teachings, practices, and historical development of Buddhism in all its rich variety. Beginning with the life and legend of the Buddha, Buddhism explores core Buddhist doctrines such as the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, nirvana, and emptiness. The authors go on to discuss the split between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, the continued divisions of Mahayana into Pure Land, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhism, and the confluence of Hinduism and Buddhism in India. The second half of the book follows the global migration of Buddhism and its continuing diversification and development in the West, especially in America. This compelling work by two great scholars - a legendary teacher and his long-time student and colleague - is the most insightful, up-to-date, and accessible introduction to this great and immensely appealing religious tradition available today. [via]
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Religions of Manby Huston SmithISBN 0060800216 (0-06-080021-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Religions of Man'Book summary:The World's Religions, by Huston Smith, has been a standard introduction to its eponymous subject since its first publication in 1958. Smith writes humbly, forswearing judgment on the validity of world religions. His introduction asks, "How does it all sound from above? Like bedlam, or do the strains blend in strange, ethereal harmony? ... We cannot know. All we can do is try to listen carefully and with full attention to each voice in turn as it addresses the divine. Such listening defines the purpose of this book." His criteria for inclusion and analysis of religions in this book are "relevance to the modern mind" and "universality," and his interest in each religion is more concerned with its principles than its context. Therefore, he avoids cataloging the horrors and crimes of which religions have been accused, and he attempts to show each "at their best." Yet The World's Religions is no pollyannaish romp: "It is about religion alive," Huston writes. "It calls the soul to the highest adventure it can undertake, a proposed journey across the jungles, peaks, and deserts of the human spirit. The call is to confront reality." And by translating the voices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Christianity, and Judaism, among others, Smith has amplified the divine call for generations of readers. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Traditionby Huston SmithISBN 0060858354 (0-06-085835-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition'Book summary:Huston Smith, dean of world religions, presents the essential teachings of Christianity, and, for the first time, his own profound Christian faith and convictions.
In this elegant and concise treatise, Huston Smith examines and puts forth what being a Christian has meant for him personally, how it has shaped his life and beliefs. In contrast to the misguided course of culturally rigid and intolerant evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity on the one hand, and the non-transcendent liberal Christianity of Marcus Borg, John Shelby Spong, et al. on the other, Smith presents a passionate and convincing argument for a vital alternative that is a deeper, authentic Christian faith that is both tolerant, respectful of people's and religious differences, yet substantial.
In part one, he relates his own story as a child of Christian missionaries in China, and how the beliefs they instilled in him resonated throughout his life. Using those beliefs, he argues that religion in general, and Christianity in particular, must find its way back into modern life for modern life to continue, and that the Christian world can co-exist, and in fact must co-exist with modernity.
Part two is an expanded and deeper version of the chapter on Christianity from The World's Religions.
And finally, in part three, Huston analyses and discusses the three main divisions in Christianity today.
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Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiographyby Huston SmithISBN 0061154261 (0-06-115426-1)
Hardcover, Harperone
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Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbeliefby Huston SmithISBN 0060671025 (0-06-067102-5)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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