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Ninian Smart believes that the modern study of religion should occur in the context of a radical reappraisal of our educational system. This is a worldview analysis of religion appropriate to today's global city. It attacks narrowness whether found in Western philosophy or Christian theology, and argues for a disestablishmentarian stance.Religion and the Western Mind presents the explosive possibilities of religions -- of world views that have...

This is the fascinating biography, first published in 1985, of the remarkable Bengali religious leader Swami Pranavananda who lived in the turbulent years of the early twentieth century.

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The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time.

Offers an introduction to many of the world's major philosophical and religious traditions. This work offers a global philosophical and religious picture.

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World Philosophies presents in one volume a superb introduction to all the world's major philosophical and religious traditions. Covering all corners of the globe, Ninian Smart's work offers a comprehensive and global philosophical and religious picture. In this revised and expanded second edition, a team of world renowned scholars assembled by the Editor Oliver Leaman have brought Ninian Smart's masterpiece up to date for the twenty-first cen...

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El presente libro, una obra general y de carácter histórico sobre el complejo mundo de las religiones y el desarrollo de los sistemas de creencias, se organiza en dos partes. En la primera se sigue el desarrollo de las diferentes religiones según surgieron de las tradiciones transmitidas a partir del mundo antiguo. En la segunda se examinan con detalle la fe y las culturas producidas a partir del Renacimiento y los viajes de descubrimiento y d...

For courses in Introduction to World Religions and Introduction to Religious Studies.This text offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the study of modern religion. It explores and analyzes the many dimensions not only of the major religious traditions, but also those of the civil religions (e.g., nationalism) that often compete and combine with them in the modern world.

A well-annotated, impartial anthology of key texts from world religions--including the primitive, ancient, and esoteric alongside the living faiths of both Western and Eastern cultures... The excerpts are grouped by faiths and subclassified by type: sacred narratives, doctrines, rituals, institutional expressions, experience, and ethics...There are good bibliographies at the end of each.A.L.A. Booklist

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Examines the relations between Buddhism and Christianity in the context of our emerging world civilization. It illuminates the way Theravada Buddhism does not fit relevant theories about religion and does not match Christian (or Muslim or Jewish or Hindu) belief in God.

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The Yogi and the Devotee' is based on lectures given in Delhi and explores in a novel way the relation between Hinduism and Christianity. The author puts forward a general theory of the relationship between religious experience and doctrines, a theory he had developed in earlier works.

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