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Ninian Smart on world religions

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46110

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eng

Title Proper

Ninian Smart on world religions

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:traditions and the challenges of modernity

First Statement of Responsibility

/ edited by John J. Shepherd

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Farnham, England ;Burlington, VT

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: Ashgate

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2009.

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‭v.‬

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: ill., port

Series Title

(Ashgate contemporary thinkers on religion)

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Bibliography

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v. 1. Religious experience and philosophical analysis. I. Autobiographical. 'Methods in my life' - II. Religious experience and the logic of religious discourse. 'The comparative logical analysis of religious doctrines' - 'Empiricism and religions' - 'Understanding religious experience' - III. Mystical experience. 'Interpretation and mystical experience' - 'The purification of consciousness and the negative path' - 'What would Buddhaghosa have made of The cloud of unknowing?' - IV. Comparative studies. 'Numen, Nirvana, and the definition of religion' - 'What is religion?' - 'Theravada Buddhism and the definition of religion' - 'The work of the Buddha and the work of Christ' - 'The logos doctrine and Eastern beliefs' - 'The comparative view of the person : East and West' - 'Buddhism and the death of God' - 'Types of religious liberation : an implicit critique of modern politics' - V. Religious studies and religious education : method and theory in the study of religions. 'Religion as a discipline?' - 'What is comparative religion?' - 'The structure of the comparative study of religion' - 'Scientific studies of religion' - 'Religious studies and the comparative perspective - 'The study of religion as a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural presence among the human sciences' - 'Comparative religion clichaes : crushing the clichaes about comparative religion and then accentuating the positive value of the new religious education' - 'The political implications of religious studies' - VI. Religious ethics. 'Gods, bliss and morality' - 'The ethics of Chinese communism' - 'Clarity and imagination as Buddhist means to virtue' - 'Religious values and the university' - 'Sacred civilities' - 'A global ethics arising from the epistemology of religious and similar value-systems' - v. 2. Traditions and the challenges of modernity. I. Individual traditions. Buddhism. 'Mysticism and scripture in Theravada Buddhism' - 'Theravغada and processes : Nirvaona as a meta-process' - 'The dramatic effect of the Buddha on Western theories of religion' - Hinduism. 'Indian arguments about the existence of God' - 'The analogy of meaning and the tasks of comparative philosophy' - 'Swami Vivekananda as a philosopher' - 'Integral knowledge and the four theories of existence' - Chinese religions/worldviews. 'Reflections on Chinese religious and other worldviews in regard to modernization' - 'Moaism and religion' - 'The bounds of religion and the transition from the Tao to Mao' - Christianity. 'Myth and transcendence' - Islam. Islamic responses to the West - Salman Rushdie in a plural world - Shamanism. 'The twenty-first century and small peoples' - New religious movements. Distinctively Californian spiritual movements - II. Worldview analysis : religions in the modern world. 'Religion and polity : reflections on the history of religions and the analysis of politics : a question of definition' - 'Religion and nationalism in India and Sri Lanka' - 'Buddhism, Sri Lanka, and the prospects for peace' - 'The importance of diasporas' - III. Christian theology of religions and interfaith dialogue. 'Revelation, reason and religions' - The relation between Christianity and the other great religions' - 'God's body' - 'Soft natural theology' - IV. Plurality of religions : religious interpretations. 'The convergence of religions' - 'A contemplation of absolutes' - 'Models for understanding the relations between religions' - 'Pluralism' - V. Plurality of religions : ethico-political implications. 'On knowing what is uncertain' - 'The epistemology of pluralism : the basis of liberal philosophy' - 'Does a universal standard of value need to be higher-order?' - 'Worldview-pluralism : an important paradox and its possible solution' - VI. Conclusion. 'An ultimate vision.'

Entry Element

ادیان

Religions

Religion

Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001, اسمارت، نینیان

Shepherd, John J.، شپرد، جان

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