Huston Smith

Gebundenes Buch

The Huston Smith Reader

Beschreibung

This reader is the culmination of sixty years of Huston Smiths writings. The essays, which still resonate today, were chosen from a wide variety of Smiths publications: books, articles, and interviews. It accomplishes the ambitious task of elucidating what religion is and what makes it meaningful.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780520270220
• ISBN-10: 0520270223
• Artikelnr.: 34882879