Huston Smith 
The Huston Smith Reader [EPUB ebook] 

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 memorable record of Huston Smith’s lifelong endeavor to enrich the inner lives of his fellow humans.

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Preview: The Book Now in Your Hands

Introduction: Grand Tour of All the World


Welcome to the Reader

Huston Smith


Book One: A Personal Starting Point

1. No Wasted Journey

2. The Way Things Are


Book Two: The Sacred Dimension of Everyday Life

3. Two Kinds of Teaching

4. The Sacred Dimension of Everyday Life

5. Light

6. The Revolution in Western Thought

7. Empirical Metaphysics


Book Three: I Never Met a Religion I Didn’t Like

8. My Three Other Religions

9. Explaining Fundamentalism

10. What They Have That We Lack: On Native American Religion

11. Three Ways of Relating to the World. Three Geographies. Three Religious Traditions

12. Shinto: A Japanese Sense of the Sacred

13. The Spiritual Heritage of India

14. The Importance of the Buddha

15. Tibetan Chanting

16. The Relevance of the Great Religions for the Modern World


Book Four: The Big Picture

17. Educating the Intellect: On Opening the Eye of the Heart

18. Do Drugs Have Religious Import?

19. The Levels of Reality

20. The Levels of Selfhood

21. Western Philosophy as a Great Religion


Book Five: Return to the Personal

22. Encountering God

23. Reflections upon Turning Ninety


Conclusion: The Sacred Unconscious


Afterword: The Man Who Took Religion Seriously: Huston Smith in Context

Dana Sawyer


Works by Huston Smith

Credits

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Huston Smith is regarded as one of the most prominent authorities on religions of the world. His classic text, The World’s Religions, has seen multiple editions and has sold in excess of three million copies. He has been the subject of a Bill Moyers’ PBS series called ‘The Wisdom of Faith’ and is the author of numerous books, including Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief, The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life, and The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition. Jeffery Paine is the author of Father India, Re-enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West, and Adventures with the Buddha.