; foreword by Reza Shah-Kazemi ; introduction by William Stoddart.
Bloomington, Ind.
: World Wisdom
, 2010.
xxi, 301 p.
; 23 cm.
The library of perennial philosophy
The perennial philosophy series
Includes bibliographical references: p. 295 - 296 and index.
What is "tradition"? -- An introduction to sacred web -- The importance of spiritual literacy -- Pluralism and the metaphysics of morality -- "What thirst is for" -- Of detachment and spiritual courtesy -- Consecrated to the sublime -- "Fundamentalism" : a metaphysical perspective -- Reclaiming the center -- Understanding "tradition" -- On faith and intellect -- Umberto Eco, Fascism, and tradition -- Towards a traditional understanding of sexuality -- On translation -- The principle of verticality -- The quest for moral certainty -- On cultivating awareness -- What is normal? -- The problem of evil -- The secular and the sacred -- "Standing unshakably in the true" : a commentary on the teachings of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) -- "A single principle" : on faith and pluralism -- Striving for "wholeness" in the Kali yuga -- The secularization of faith in the modern world -- Of "longing" and "belonging" -- Excerpt from "The metaphysics of human governance" -- The metaphysics of poetic expression -- "Neither of the East nor of the West" : universality in Islam -- Education in the light of tradition : a metaphysical perspective -- Review of Science of the cosmos, science of the soul, by William C. Chittick -- Review of Conversations with Wendell Berry -- Review of the Henry Corbin trilogy / by Tom Cheetham.