The Huston Smith Reader - Smith, Huston

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Résumé :
I read Huston Smith's The World's Religions as a teenager. It was the most influential event in my life. He has shaped my thinking, my lifelong quest, and guided me to where I am today. The Huston Smith Reader will enlighten you, delight you, and expand your awareness. I intend to carry this book with me wherever I go.--Deepak Chopra, author of War of the Worldviews

Huston Smith approaches religion with the wisdom of a philosopher and the wonder of a child. He looks for similarities that unite, not differences that divide. He comes armed with knowledge and blessed with understanding.--Don Lattin, author of The Harvard Psychedelic Club

This remarkable book by the beloved scholar-practitioner Huston Smith has the depth and breadth of no other. It is wise and full of insight, at times funny, at times poignant. Manifesting both lived and living wisdom, the book's power, beauty, and courage will take the reader into the heart of the world's religions.--Joan Halifax, Founding Abbot, Upaya Zen Center

No one in our time, neither Martin Buber nor Elie Wiesel, neither Karen Armstrong nor Simone Weil, has made a greater contribution to our understanding of religion and spirituality than Huston Smith. We are privileged to live in his era, not only for his books and films, but for his emphasis on gleaning the wisdom from ancient traditions, and the example he has afforded the rest of us in practicing what he preaches, thus illuminating for us what it means to have a lived-in philosophy of the religious life. In turn, this book affords us the widest and most penetrating range of insights yet published into the mind and heart of this great teacher.--Phil Cousineau, editor of The Way Things Are: Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life and author of The Art of Pilgrimage

Huston Smith's words serve me well in traversing my spiritual path.--Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now

Biographie:
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.

Sommaire:
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