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Book Synopsis The Meaning and End of Religion by : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Download or read book The Meaning and End of Religion written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.
Book Synopsis What Is Scripture? by : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Download or read book What Is Scripture? written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.C. Smith's vastly erudite work asks how it is that certain texts have so seeped in to human life-in a rich, complex, and powerful way-as to be deemed sacred. Examining the history and use of scripture in the world's major religious traditions, he shows how and why scripture continues to carry momentous and at time appalling power in human affairs.
Book Synopsis The Faith of Other Men by : Wilford Cantwell Smith
Download or read book The Faith of Other Men written by Wilford Cantwell Smith and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Patterns of Faith Around the World by : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Download or read book Patterns of Faith Around the World written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by Oxford : Oneworld. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Smith is interested not so much in drawing a general outline ofhe different world faiths through their "facts", as giving an insight intohe personal significance of these "facts" for the individuals who practiseheir respective faiths.
Book Synopsis Believing by : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Download or read book Believing written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by Oxford, England : Oneworld. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the concept of "believing" is generally considered to be of central significance to one's faith. Smith traces the history of "believing" through a discussion of religious belief from a modern philosophical and linguistic perspective; an assessment of the history of the words "belief" and "believe"; as well as through the study of biblical passages. Smith's comprehensive enquiry reveals that this emphasis on its importance is a relatively modern phenomenon.
Book Synopsis The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith by : Ellen Bradshaw Aitken (1961–2014)
Download or read book The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith written by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken (1961–2014) and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and his influence on the development of religious studies and Islamic studies in the twentieth century. This is the first work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916–2000), whose intellectual and institutional contributions helped shape the field of religious studies in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a young scholar, Smith taught Indian and Islamic history in Lahore for several years and witnessed the partition of India. Upon his return to North America, he obtained his PhD at Princeton University before embarking upon a long and distinguished career. He founded the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University and served as director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. Smith emphasized the place of the scholarly study of Islam in the Western academy long before Islam occupied its current position at the center of global politics, challenged the notion of monolithic world religions, and argued for the importance of dialogical processes and a personalist approach to the study of religion. Contributors to this volume, many of whom were Smith’s students, provide a wide-ranging exploration of his influence and legacy
Book Synopsis On Understanding Islam by : Wilfred C. Smith
Download or read book On Understanding Islam written by Wilfred C. Smith and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Book Synopsis Wilfred Cantwell Smith by : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Download or read book Wilfred Cantwell Smith written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by Oxford : Oneworld Publications. This book was released on 2001-11-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of key writings by one of the most celebrated scholars of comparative religion, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, which makes all his key ideas available at a glance, and features a commentary, cross-referencing, and thematic organization.
Book Synopsis Islam in Modern History by : W. C. Smith
Download or read book Islam in Modern History written by W. C. Smith and published by Signet. This book was released on 1968-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern Islam in India by : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Download or read book Modern Islam in India written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by Hesperides Press. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1913. Author: Henri Lichtenberger Language: English Keywords: History Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Keywords: English Keywords 1900s Language English Artwork
Book Synopsis Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective by : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Download or read book Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished historian of religion explores the contemporary culture of the Western world.
Book Synopsis Interfaith Leadership by : Eboo Patel
Download or read book Interfaith Leadership written by Eboo Patel and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for students, groups, and organizations seeking to foster interfaith dialogue and promote understanding across religious lines In this book, renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel offers a clear, detailed, and practical guide to interfaith leadership, illustrated with compelling examples. Patel explains what interfaith leadership is and explores the core competencies and skills of interfaith leadership, before turning to the issues interfaith leaders face and how they can prepare to solve them. Interfaith leaders seek points of connection and commonality—in their neighborhoods, schools, college campuses, companies, organizations, hospitals, and other spaces where people of different faiths interact with one another. While it can be challenging to navigate the differences and disagreements that can arise from these interactions, skilled interfaith leaders are vital if we are to have a strong, religiously diverse democracy. This primer presents readers with the philosophical underpinnings of interfaith theory and outlines the skills necessary to practice interfaith leadership today.
Book Synopsis Questions of Religious Truth by : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Download or read book Questions of Religious Truth written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by New York, Scribner [1967]. This book was released on 1967 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan by : Hans Martin Krämer
Download or read book Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan written by Hans Martin Krämer and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the very categories that frame these debates, namely religion and the secular, entered the Japanese language less than 150 years ago. To think of religion as a Western imposition, as something alien to Japanese reality, however, would be simplistic. As this in-depth study shows for the first time, religion and the secular were critically reconceived in Japan by Japanese who had their own interests and traditions as well as those received in their encounters with the West. It argues convincingly that by the mid-nineteenth century developments outside of Europe and North America were already part of a global process of rethinking religion. The Buddhist priest Shimaji Mokurai (1838–1911) was the first Japanese to discuss the modern concept of religion in some depth in the early 1870s. In his person, indigenous tradition, politics, and Western influence came together to set the course the reconception of religion would take in Japan. The volume begins by tracing the history of the modern Japanese term for religion, shūkyō, and its components and exploring the significance of Shimaji’s sectarian background as a True Pure Land Buddhist. Shimaji went on to shape the early Meiji government’s religious policy and was essential in redefining the locus of Buddhism in modernity and indirectly that of Shinto, which led to its definition as nonreligious and in time to the creation of State Shinto. Finally, the work offers an extensive account of Shimaji’s intellectual dealings with the West (he was one of the first Buddhists to travel to Europe) as well as clarifying the ramifications of these encounters for Shimaji’s own thinking. Concluding chapters historicize Japanese appropriations of secularization from medieval times to the twentieth century and discuss the meaning of the reconception of religion in modern Japan. Highly original and informed, Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan not only emphasizes the agency of Asian actors in colonial and semicolonial situations, but also hints at the function of the concept of religion in modern society: a secularist conception of religion was the only way to ensure the survival of religion as we know it today. In this respect, the Japanese reconception of religion and the secular closely parallels similar developments in the West.
Book Synopsis A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion by : Bradley L. Herling
Download or read book A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion written by Bradley L. Herling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we understand and interpret the strange but familiar thing that we call “religion”? What are the foundations of a methodical approach to this subject, and what theoretical tools are available to students who are new to this area of inquiry? A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to theories and basic methodology in the field. Now in its second edition and updated throughout, this concise but comprehensive book includes:- - A case for the urgency and relevance of studying religion today - Discussion of the role and perspective of the student of religion - Description of the nature of theory and its function - An accessible survey of classic theorists in the modern study of religion - Feature boxes highlighting essential quotations and guiding principles for application of theories An expanded consideration of contemporary issues in the field, including gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, globalization, violence, science, and new media. - Recommended further reading A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion offers a thorough but concise body of material suitable for introductory courses on the study of religion, or to provide theoretical context for survey courses. Study questions and worksheets can be found on the book's webpage.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān by : Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān written by Jane Dammen McAuliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Qur'an (Koran), a text that has guided the lives of millions.
Book Synopsis A Magic Still Dwells by : Kimberley C. Patton
Download or read book A Magic Still Dwells written by Kimberley C. Patton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of religion, involving different scales of comparison for different purposes, is both justifiable and necessary. A Magic Still Dwells brings together leading historians of religions from a wide range of backgrounds and vantage points, and draws from traditions as diverse as Indo-European mythology, ancient Greek religion, Judaism, Buddhism, Ndembu ritual, and the spectrum of religions practiced in America. The contributors take seriously the postmodern critique, explain its impact on their work, uphold or reject various premises, and in several cases demonstrate new comparative approaches. Together, the essays represent a state-of-the-art assessment of current issues in the comparative study of religion.
