The phenomenon of Christianity

Religion & Spirituality

SMART, NINIAN

Christian Books & Bibles

Collins

The Religious Experience of Mankind

Fount

This book offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the full range of worldviews, showing how, whether religious or secular, they define the human values that drive the engines of both continuity and change worldwide. It shows readers the dynamics of each tradition, and emphasizes that although the various traditions may all share similar aspects, they each assign varying levels of importance to specific areas. Explores the major religious traditions and secular ideologies (Marxism, nationalisms, scientific humanism) from six dimensions: experiential/emotional; narrative/mythic; doctrinal/philosophical; ethical/legal; ritual/practical; and social/organizational. For anyone interested in comparative worldviews, religious and secular.

Worldviews: Cross Cultural Explorations of Human Beliefs

Religious Studies

PRENTICE/HALL

Well-known and respected, this comprehensive history of religious experience explores the major world religions within a consistent framework based on the author's paradigm six dimensions of religion. It tells the story without entering unduly into technicalities and focuses on how the major religious traditions relate to human experience. It extends beyond information about the traditions to distill the essential patterns of both feelings and ideas that animate religious practice; contains photographs that evoke the flavor of religious rituals or experiences and maps that orient students to the geographic context of religious traditions.

The Religious Experience (5th Edition)

Pearson

Well-known and respected, this comprehensive history of  religious experience explores the major world religions within a consistent  framework based on the author's paradigm six dimensions of religion.    It tells the story without entering unduly into  technicalities and focuses on how the major religious traditions relate to  human experience. It extends beyond information about the traditions to  distill the essential patterns of both feelings and ideas that animate  religious practice; contains photographs that evoke the flavor of religious  rituals or experiences and maps that orient students to the geographic  context of religious traditions.

Religious Experience

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Macmillan Publishing Company, New York

A revised and updated edition of Ninian Smart's work, this study provides an introduction to the chief systems and debates found in Indian (Hindu, Buddhist, Jain etc) traditions of philosophy. Part 1 discusses the metaphysical systems, Buddhist metaphysics, Jain metaphysics, materialism and exegesis, distinctionism and yoga, logic-atomism, non-dualism, qualified non-dualism, dualism and Saivite doctrine, and analysis of the religious factors in Indian metaphysics. Part 2 examines arguments for and against the existence of God, arguments about rebirth and the soul, epistemological questions, causation, and induction and inference.

Doctrine and Argument In Indian Philosophy

george allen

This is a fascinating biography of the remarkable Bengali religious leader, Swami Pranavananda who lived in the turbulent years of the early twentieth century. The story of his life has to some extent been eclipsed by the better known personalities of the Hindu Renaissance and the struggle for Indian independence, but his extraordinary personal qualities, his determined asceticism, his high ideals of social service and commitment to Hindu solidarity - all serve to set him apart from his contemporaries and entitle him to be better known by political and religious historians of the period.

Prophet of a New Hindu Age: The Life and Times of Archarya Pranavananda

Purnananda, Swami

Unwin Hyman

This is the fascinating biography, first published in 1985, of the remarkable Bengali religious leader Swami Pranavananda who lived in the turbulent years of the early twentieth century. The story of his life has to some extent been eclipsed by the struggle for Indian independence, but his extraordinary personal qualities, his determined asceticism, his high ideals of social service and commitment to Hindu solidarity all serve to set him apart from his contemporaries and entitle him to be better known by political and religious historians of the period.

Prophet of a New Hindu Age: The Life and Times Oa Archarya Pranavananda

In search of Christianity

Harper&Row

In Beyond Ideology, Ninian Smart faces up to the reality that in the world of humans there exist different Beyonds, or at the very least there are different maps of the world hereafter. From this it becomes clear that the problem of the plurality of religions cannot be left unaddressed. Smart's consideration of the plurality of religions is completed in a much broader perspective than is usual. The question that he considers is not proving any religion right or wrong; his focus is on which worldview could be an actual possibility for modern humanity living in a world that will soon resemble a global city. Smart approaches the problem of the plurality of religion by categorising religions as worldviews. He then extends this view to the so-called secular worldviews, or ideologies, such as Marxism, nationalism, Maoism and social democracy. Such ideologies can fulfil this role because they are composed of symbolic acts that foster belief systems and sacramental actions. Smart believes that the ultimacy of religion lies in a discovery of identity, and that these ideologies, otherwise considered secular worldviews, are inadequate as a solid foundation to defend the fundamental rights of human beings. This publication is an attempt to bring certain insights drawn from the history of religions to bear on the task of framing a worldview that synthesizes important ingredients both from East and West and from individual experience and secular politics.

Beyond ideology: Religion and the future of Western civilization (Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh)

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