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1 online resource (421 pages) |
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Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Religion: Collected Works |
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Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Religion: Collected Works
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Ninian Smart (1927-2001) -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Critical Analysis -- I: Autobiographical -- 1 'Methods in My Life' -- II: Religious Experience and the Logic of Religious Discourse -- 2 'The Comparative Logical Analysis of Religious Doctrines -- 3 'Empiricism and Religions' -- 4 'Understanding Religious Experience' -- III: Mystical Experience -- 5 'Interpretation and Mystical Experience' -- 6 'The Purification of Consciousness and the Negative Path' -- 7 'What Would Buddhaghosa Have Made of The Cloud of Unknowing?' -- IV: Comparative Studies -- 8 'Numen, Nirvana, and the Definition of Religion' -- 9 'What is Religion?' -- 10 'Theravada Buddhism and the Definition of Religion' -- 11 'The Work of the Buddha and the Work of Christ' -- 12 'The Logos Doctrine and Eastern Beliefs' -- 13 'The Comparative View of the Person: East and West' -- 14 'Buddhism and the Death of God' -- 15 'Types of Religious Liberation: An Implicit Critique of Modern Politics' -- V: Religious Studies and Religious Education: Method and Theory in The Study of Religions -- 16 'Religion as a Discipline?' -- 17 'What is Comparative Religion?' -- 18 'The Structure of the Comparative Study of Religion' -- 19 'Scientific Studies of Religion' -- 20 'Religious Studies and the Comparative Perspective' -- 21 'The Study of Religion as a Multidisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Presence Among the Human Sciences' -- 22 'Comparative Religion Clichés: Crushing the Clichés about Comparative Religion and then Accentuating the Positive Value of the New Religious Education' -- 23 'The Political Implications of Religious Studies' -- VI: Religious Ethics -- 24 'Gods, Bliss and Morality' -- 25 'The Ethics of Chinese Communism' -- 26 'Clarity and Imagination as Buddhist Means to Virtue' |
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27 'Religious Values and the University' -- 28 'Sacred Civilities' -- 29 'A Global Ethic Arising from the Epistemology of Religious and Similar Value-Systems' -- Appendix 1: Additional Publications by Ninian Smart -- Appendix 2: Contents of Volume 2 -- Name Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hinnells, Professor John R
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| ISBN |
9781351914512 |
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1351914510 |
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