Religious experience and philosophical analysis
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Religious experience and philosophical analysis
(Ashgate contemporary thinkers on religion : collected works, . Ninian Smart on world religions ; 1)
Ashgate, c2009
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Ninian Smart came to public prominence as the founding Professor of the first British university Department of Religious Studies in the late 1960s. His pioneering views on education in religion proved hugely influential at all levels, from primary schools to academic teaching and research. An unending string of publications, many of them accessible to the general public, sustained a reputation that became worldwide. Here, for the first time, a selection of Ninian Smart's wide-ranging writings is organised systematically under a set of categories which both comprehend and also illuminate his varied output over a career spanning half a century. The editor, John Shepherd, was Principal Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Cumbria. He first met Smart as a postgraduate student, and recently helped establish the Ninian Smart Archive at the University of Lancaster.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction: a critical analysis
- Part I Autobiographical: Methods in my life. Part II Religious Experience and the Logic of Religious Discourse: The comparative logical analysis of religious doctrines
- Empiricism and religions: Understanding religious experience. Part III Mystical Experience: Interpretation and mystical experience
- The purification of consciousness and the negative path
- What would Buddhaghosa have made of The Cloud of Unknowing?. Part IV Comparative Studies: Numen, Nirvana and the definition of religion
- What is religion?
- Theravada Buddhism and the definition of religion
- The work of the Buddha and the work of Christ
- The logos doctrine and Eastern beliefs
- The comparative view of the person: East and West
- Buddhism and the death of God
- Types of religious liberation: an implicit critique of modern politics. Part V Religious Studies and Religious Education: Method and Theory in the Study of Religions: Religion as a discipline?
- What is comparative religion?
- The structure of the comparative study of religion
- Scientific studies of religion
- Religious studies and the comparative perspective
- The study of religion as a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural presence among the human sciences
- Comparative religion cliches
- The political implications of religious studies. Part VI Religious Ethics: Gods, bliss and morality
- The ethics of Chinese Communism
- Clarity and imagination as Buddhist means to virtue
- Religious values and the university
- Sacred civilities
- A global ethic arising from the epistemology of religious and similar value-systems. Appendices
- Name index.
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