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  • Sacred Texts of the World

    A Universal Anthology

    Edited by Ninian Smart, Richard D. Hecht ...
    A perennial best-seller, this collection of readings remains a favorite of teachers of world religions for its impartial tone and its balance of major contemporary religious traditions with primitive, ancient, and esoteric religions. ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • World Philosophies

    by Ninian Smart ...
    World Philosophies presents in one volume a superb introduction to all the world’s major philosophical and religious traditions. Covering all corners of the globe, Ninian Smart’s work offers a comprehensive and global philosophical and religious picture.In this revised and expanded second edition, a team of distinguished scholars, assembled by the editor Oliver Leaman, have brought Ninian Smart’s ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Prophet of a New Hindu Age

    The Life and Times of Acharya Pranavananda

    by Ninian Smart, Swami Purnananda ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: British in India
    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 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Reasons and Faiths

    by Ninian Smart ...
    Series series International Library of Philosophy
    This is Volume VII of seven in the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy series. It presents an investigation of religious discourse, Christian and non-Christian, originally published in 1958. The aim is to describe the nature of religious doctrines and concepts, including Buddhism and Hinduism. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Yogi and the Devotee (Routledge Revivals)

    The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology

    by Ninian Smart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1968, Ninian Smart’s The Yogi and the Devotee: The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology is based on lectures given in Delhi and explores in a novel way the relation between Hinduism and Christianity. The author puts forward a general theory of the relationship between religious experience and doctrines, a theory he had developed in earlier works. He argues that ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Essence of Vedanta

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    All students of philosophy will relate to the concepts of selfhood, nature, karma and liberation. Here are views and answers to the most important questions. How is self identified? What are the causes and effects in nature? Are our actions determined? What is freedom for a human being? What happens after death?The Essence of Vedanta examines issues of existential philosophy from the viewpoint of ... Read more

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    Jungian psychology based on a little known treatise he authored in his earlier years. ... Read more

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    The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings

    by Richard F. Gombrich ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
    Written by one of the world's top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism, this new and updated edition of How Buddhism Began, discusses various important doctrines and themes in early Buddhism. It takes 'early Buddhism' to be that reflected in the Pali canon, and to some extent assumes that these doctrines reflect the teachings of the Buddha himself. Two themes predominate. Firstly, the author ... Read more

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  • The Light (La Luce)

    An Introduction to Creative Imagination

    by Massimo Scaligero ...
    Translated by Eric L. Bisbocci ...
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