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  • Ninian Smart on World Religions

    Volume 2: Traditions and the Challenges of Modernity

    Edited by John J. Shepherd ...
    Ninian Smart came to public prominence as the founding Professor of the first British university Department of Religious Studies in the late 1960s. His pioneering views on education in religion proved hugely influential at all levels, from primary schools to academic teaching and research. An unending string of publications, many of them accessible to the general public, sustained a reputation ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Ninian Smart on World Religions

    Volume 1: Religious Experience and Philosophical Analysis

    Edited by John J. Shepherd ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Religion: Collected Works
    Ninian Smart came to public prominence as the founding Professor of the first British university Department of Religious Studies in the late 1960s. His pioneering views on education in religion proved hugely influential at all levels, from primary schools to academic teaching and research. An unending string of publications, many of them accessible to the general public, sustained a reputation ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Study of Religion

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  • The Fifth Dimension

    An Exploration of the Spiritual Realm

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  • Beyond Enlightenment

    Buddhism, Religion, Modernity

    by Richard Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment.Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates ... Read more

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  • Religion and the Specter of the West

    Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation

    by Arvind-Pal Mandair ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an ... Read more

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  • Debates in Indian Philosophy

    Classical, Colonial, and Contemporary

    by A. Raghuramaraju ...
    This volume traces the impact of colonialism and Western philosophy on the dialogical structure of Indian thought and highlights the general tendency in contemporary Indian philosophy to avoid direct dialogue as opposed to the rich and elaborate debates that formed the pivot of the classical Indian tradition. It defines three possible areas of debate: between Swami Vivekanand and Mahatama Gandhi; ... Read more

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  • The Importance of Religion

    Meaning and Action in our Strange World

    by Gavin Flood ...
    The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choicesProvides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world views religion is enduring and vividly engages with the mystery of the worldOffers striking arguments ... Read more

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  • The Tao of the West

    Western Tranformations of Taoist Thought

    by J.J. Clarke ...
    In this book, J.J. Clarke shows us how Taoist texts, ideas, and practices have been assimilated within a whole range of Western ideas and agendas. We see how Chinese thinkers such as Lao-tzu and Chuang tzu, along with practices such as Feng Shui and Tai Chi, have been used as a key Western inspiration in religion, philosophy, ethics, politics, ecology and health.The Tao of the West not only ... Read more

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  • To Re-Enchant the World

    A Philosophy of Unitarian Universalism

    by Richard Grigg ...
    Since the seventeenth century, Western culture has been undergoing what historians and sociologists call secularization, the process via which religious institutions lose more and more of their power in society. Whereas Western society was once held together by the Christian Church, it is now held together by the rational procedures dictated by modern capitalism. But the rules of capitalism, ... Read more

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  • The Darkening Spirit

    Jung, spirituality, religion

    by David Tacey ...
    The twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the twentieth century was Freud's. Jung predicted the demise of secular humanism and claimed we would search for alternatives to science, atheism and reason. We would experience a new and even unfashionable appetite for the sacred. Educated people, however, would not return to unreconstructed religions, because these do not express the ... Read more

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