Research Catalog

Title

The religious experience / Ninian Smart.

Author

Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1996.

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Details

Description

ix, 453 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Describes the religious experience of humankind, both in history and in the present. The books surveys the religions of the East, from Indian to Japan, and of the West, from the Middle East to North America. It also delineates the religious cultures of the South, in Africa, the Pacific and South America. It brings the story up-to-date, including the spiritual aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Readers and encouraged to adopt an attitude of informed empathy in order to get the feel of the various faiths and cultures. Though there is some emphasis on religious experience, there is also a call to look at other dimensions of religion, such as their teachings, rituals and other practices.

Subjects

• Experience (Religion)
• Religion
• Religions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-436) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1: Religion and human experience -- Part I: Small-scale religions -- Chapter 2: Prehistoric and small-scale religions -- Part II: Religions of Africa -- Chapter 3: The African experience -- Part III: Religions of India: -- Chapter 4: The early Indian experience, Jainism, and Buddhism -- Chapter 5: The Indian experience: Classical Hinduism -- Part IV: Religions of the Far East -- Chapter 6: Chinese and Japanese religious experience -- Part V. Religions of the Near East -- Chapter 7: Religion in the ancient Mediterranean world -- Chapter 8: The Jewish experience -- Chapter 9: The early Christian experience -- Chapter 10: The Muslim experience -- Chapter 11: The later Christian experience -- Part VI: Religions of the Americas -- Chapter 12: The American experience -- Part VII: Contemporary religious experience -- Chapter 13: The Humanist experience -- Chapter 14: The contemporary experience and the future.

ISBN

002412141X (pbk)

LCCN

^^^95018288^

OCLC

32510480

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library