Ninian Smart

Can miracles happen? Is the human will free? Against the background of the world's religions, what does religious experience show? If a good God exists, why does he allow evil? As the author writes, "We have to think our way through a number of the central issues raised by the claims of religion to give a true account of the world in which we live." His special contribution is to insist that we do not ignore the achievements of those who have wrestled with the problems in previous generations. In this book, therefore, each problem is presented in connection with the thought of a major figure in the history of philosophy and theology: Hume, Kant, Aquinas, Otto and Tennant. He is also convinced that Western Christians have much to learn from the other religions of the world.

Philosophers and Religious Truth

The Religious Experience of Mankind

This is a collection of stories of philosophy and religion from around the world. The author discusses figures such as: Plato and Kierkega ard in the West; the Buddha and Mao Zedong in Asia; temples and Knibanga in Africa; and Rodo and Royce in America. It also includes ideas such as: Indian ideas of testimony and evidence; Chinese notions of moral development; Buddhist concepts of cosmology; and Latin American critiques of materialism.

World Philosophies

Richard Hecht

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

A Universal Anthology

Sacred Texts of the World

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.

Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs

Worldviews

John Clayton

Steven T. Katz

Patrick Sherry

The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Soames essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War.

Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 3

The Teacher and Christian Belief

The World's Religions offers a fascinating insight into a wide range of faiths, their history and their followers. In the richly illustrated new edition of this popular book, religions are described through their symbols, rituals, followers, architecture and art. References, statistics, maps and pictures have been updated and added. The text has been thoroughly revised to highlight recent developments, such as the spread of Islam, African-American and Hispanic-American religious experience, and women priests.

The World's Religions

Now available in paperback, the successful three volumes of Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Some essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War. The contributors are among the leading scholars in their field and analyse not only what was said but also why it was said, and explore what is of lasting value in it. Contributions are sufficiently clear to be of use to students in religious studies and cognate disciplines, but have enough depth and detail to appeal to scholars.

Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West:

Ninian Smart, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Honourary Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster, is one of the world's foremost authorities on the comparative study of religions. His early work involved an innovative and fruitful application of philosophy to the historical and comparative study of religious traditions and he has subsequently made major contributions to the fields of philosophy of religion, education and methodology. In this volume, eighteen professors in the field of religious studies have chosen to honour him by contributing original essays on a wide range of topics related to his work and on themes that have value and significance to the field in general. Also included in the volume is a brief account of Smart's career as an introduction to both Ninian Smart's thought and work and, more generally, the academic study of religion.

Essays in Honour of Ninian Smart

Aspects of Religion

Frederick W. Denny

Frederick Mathewson Denny

Maps and text present a guide to the historical development and current state of the world's religions.

Atlas of the World's Religions

Founded British First Department of Religious Studies at University of Lancaster and J F Rowny Professor of Comparative Religions Ninian Smart

Provides information about the symbols, rituals, art, and history of religions around the world.

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 that became worldwide.Here, for the first time, a selection of Ninian Smart's wide-ranging writings is organised systematically under a set of categories which both comprehend and also illuminate his varied output over a career spanning half a century. The editor, John Shepherd, was Principal Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Cumbria. He first met Smart as a postgraduate student, and recently helped establish the Ninian Smart Archive at the University of Lancaster.

Ninian Smart on World Religions: Traditions and the challenges of modernity. I. Individual traditions. Buddhism. 'Mysticism and scripture in Theravāda Buddhism'

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reasons and Faiths

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 de conquista, planteándose los concretos interrogantes sobre por qué, cómo y con qué efectos se han producido los cambios religiosos desde la Antigüedad a nuestros días.

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