wyszukanych pozycji: 19
The Huston Smith Reader
ISBN: 9780520270220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For more than sixty years, Huston Smith has not only written and taught about the world s religions, he has lived them. This Reader presents a rich selection of Smith s writings, covering six decades of inquiry and exploration, and ranging from scholarship to memoir. Over his long academic career, Smith s tireless enthusiasm for religious ideas has offered readers both in and outside the academy a fresh understanding of what religion is and what makes it meaningful. The Huston Smith Reader offers a comprehensive guide to understanding religion and spirituality as well as a...
For more than sixty years, Huston Smith has not only written and taught about the world s religions, he has lived them. This Reader presents a ...
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133,40 zł |
Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief
ISBN: 9780060671020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World's Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocated by the dominant materialistic worldview of our times. Smith champions a society in which religion is once again treasured and authentically practiced as the vital source of human wisdom. Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World's Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being... |
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67,83 zł |
Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography
ISBN: 9780061154270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him and shared his journey--a Who's Who of 20th century spiritual America: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Merton and Pete Seeger.... A valuable master class on faith and life." As Stephen Hawking is to science; as Peter Drucker is to economics; and as Joseph Campbell is to mythology; so Huston Smith is to religion.... "In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him... |
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80,56 zł |
The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition
ISBN: 9780060858353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "I have tried to describe a Christianity which is fully compatible with everything we now know, and to indicate why Christians feel privileged to give their lives to it." In his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, renowned author, scholar, and teacher of world religions Huston Smith turns to his own life-long religion, Christianity. With stories and personal anecdotes, Smith not only presents the basic beliefs and essential teachings of Christianity, but argues why religious belief matters in today's secular world. Though there is a wide variety... "I have tried to describe a Christianity which is fully compatible with everything we now know, and to indicate why Christians feel privileged to g... |
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63,59 zł |
The World's Religions
ISBN: 9780061660184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The World's Religions, by beloved author and pioneering professor Huston Smith (Tales of Wonder), is the definitive classic for introducing the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as regional native traditions. This revised and updated edition provides sympathetic descriptions of the various traditions, explaining how they work "from the inside," which is a big reason why this cherished classic has sold more than two million copies since it... The World's Religions, by beloved author and pioneering professor Huston Smith (Tales of Wonder), is the definitive classic for ... |
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77,74 zł |
Islam: A Concise Introduction
ISBN: 9780060095574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The world's premier authority on religious traditions presents a concise and timely guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Islam. Drawn from his masterful presentation of Islam in the bestselling book The World's Religions (over two million copies sold), Huston Smith offers a revealing look into the heart of a tradition with more than one billion adherents worldwide. Dispelling narrow and distorted notions about the nature of Islam and featuring a new introduction by the author, this book compellingly conveys the profound appeal of Islam, while addressing such... The world's premier authority on religious traditions presents a concise and timely guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Islam. D... |
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55,10 zł |
Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography
ISBN: 9780061669040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him and shared his journey--a Who's Who of 20th century spiritual America: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Merton and Pete Seeger.... A valuable master class on faith and life." As Stephen Hawking is to science; as Peter Drucker is to economics; and as Joseph Campbell is to mythology; so Huston Smith is to religion.... "In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him... |
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110,25 zł |
Is There a Universal Grammar of Religion?
ISBN: 9780812696448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this provocative volume two important scholars of religion, Huston Smith and Henry Rosemont, Jr., put forth their viewpoints and share a probing conversation. Though the two diverge considerably in their accounts of religious faith and practice, they also agree on fundamental points. Huston Smith, author of the important work The World's Religions, has long argued for the fundamental equality of the world's religions. Describing a "universal grammar of religion," he argues that fourteen points of similarity exist among all of the major religious traditions and that these...
In this provocative volume two important scholars of religion, Huston Smith and Henry Rosemont, Jr., put forth their viewpoints and share a probing co...
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84,63 zł |
A Seat at the Table: Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom
ISBN: 9780520251694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom. Their intimate, impassioned dialogues yield profound insights into one of the most striking cases of tragic irony in history: the country that prides itself on religious freedom has resolutely denied those same rights to its own indigenous people. With remarkable erudition and curiosity--and respectfully framing his questions in light of the revelation...
In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual...
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120,04 zł |
Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions
ISBN: 9780062507877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This classic companion to The World's Religions articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditions This classic companion to The World's Religions articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditions |
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63,59 zł |
Epiphanies: Where Science and Miracles Meet
ISBN: 9781582701677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a quiet moment of therapy, a breakthrough comes -- the miracle of the new. To experience an epiphany is to have sudden insight into the essential meaning of something, unleashed sometimes in exquisitely slow motion, sometimes in a flash. In an intimate, lyrical integration of the science of psychology and transcendence of spirituality, celebrated clinician Dr. Ann Jauregui introduces us to nine individuals who have undergone astonishing transformations by exploring a world quite different from the one described by our five senses. With moments of miraculous and joyful surprise,...
In a quiet moment of therapy, a breakthrough comes -- the miracle of the new. To experience an epiphany is to have sudden insight into the...
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76,31 zł |
Buddhism: A Concise Introduction
ISBN: 9780060730673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A concise and up-to-date guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Buddhism by two luminaries in the field of world religions. A concise and up-to-date guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Buddhism by two luminaries in the field of world religions. |
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57,00 zł |
The Eye of the Heart: A New Translation with Selected Letters
ISBN: 9781936597703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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77,74 zł |
Essential Sufism
ISBN: 9780062514752 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The definitive compendium of Sufi wisdom, 'Essential Sufism' draws together more than three hundred fables, poems and prayers that reveal the luminous spirit of Islamic mysticism. Embracing all eras and highlighting the many faces of Sufism, this colle The definitive compendium of Sufi wisdom, 'Essential Sufism' draws together more than three hundred fables, poems and prayers that reveal the lumin... |
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63,59 zł |
Jackrabbit
ISBN: 9781733269902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,40 zł |
The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780062236814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the "ultimate reality." In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. Huxley consistently examined the spiritual basis of both the individual and human society, always seeking to reach an authentic and clearly defined experience of the divine. Featuring an introduction by renowned religious scholar Huston Smith, this celebration of "ultimate reality" proves relevant and prophetic in addressing the... Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the "ultimate reality." In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other w... |
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72,07 zł |
A Thoughtful Soul: Reflections from Swedenborg
ISBN: 9780877851486 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. George F. Dole, Harvard Ph.D., has translated and arranged by theme a selection of passages from Swedenborg's works on life, heaven and hell, and the nature of God. This book is an accessible introduction for the reader new to Swedenborg, as well as a concise reference for those familiar with his philosophy. Swedenborg's] philosophy is about as practical as one could ask. Ascetism is not the way to God. ... A good person can be saved with any religion or with no religion. "George F. Dole ... has done us a great service in bringing Emanuel Swedenborg back to the attention of our... George F. Dole, Harvard Ph.D., has translated and arranged by theme a selection of passages from Swedenborg's works on life, heaven and hell, and t... |
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76,59 zł |
The Cloud of Unknowing: And the Book of Privy Counseling
ISBN: 9780385030977 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. William Johnston--an authority on fourteenth century spirituality and specifically on the writings of this unknown author--provides a substantive and accessible introduction detailing what is known about the history of this text and its relevance throughout the ages. Also included here is the author's other principal work, The Book of Privy Counseling--a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and consciousness only of the divine.
William Johnston--an authority on fourteenth century spirituality and specifically on the writings of this unknown author--provides a substantive and ...
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72,11 zł |
Wheel of Life: The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist
ISBN: 9780877730347 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Wheel of Life " is the spiritual autobiography of John Blofeld (1913-1987), a world-renowned British scholar and writer who devoted his life to the study of Eastern traditions, especially Buddhism and Taoism. With wit, honesty, and humility, Blofeld portrays his search for wisdom and his discovery of a genuine spiritual path. He describes in vivid detail his life in Peking and his travels in Tibet, Mongolia, China, India, and Burma: the worlds of remote mountain monasteries, the sacred inner chambers of sages and yogis, and the inspired lives of simple, ordinary people. The book is...
"The Wheel of Life " is the spiritual autobiography of John Blofeld (1913-1987), a world-renowned British scholar and writer who devoted his life to t...
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127,05 zł |