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The way things are : conversations with Huston Smith on the spiritual life / edited and with a preface by Phil Cousineau.
LIBRA BL43.S64 A5 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Huston.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Huston--Interviews.
- Smith, Huston.
- Religion historians--United States--Interviews.
- Religion historians.
- Religion.
- Spiritual life.
- Religion and science.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 314 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A collection of interviews and essays by best-selling religion author Huston Smith. In his most accessible and personal book to date, Smith discusses "the spiritual life" with well known writers and luminaries. This is the closest to a Smith memoir ever published.
- Contents:
- The way things are: an interview with Timothy Beneke
- The primordial tradition: an interview with John Loudon
- Winnowing the wisdom traditions: an interview with Mark Kenaston
- This is it: an interview with Richard Marranca
- The soul of the community: an interview with Philip and Bridgett Novak
- Encountering God: an essay by Huston Smith
- The place of science: an interview with Steve Reuys
- The limits of the scientific worldview: an interview with Jeffrey Mishlove
- Science as the oracle of our age: an interview tith Michael Toms
- Science, faith, and infinity: an interview with Tracy Knauss and the Reverend Jack Young
- Toward a partnership between science and religion: an interview with April Thompson
- The battle for the human mind: an interview with Richard Gazdayka
- The new paradigm: an interview with Richard Smoley and Jay Kinney
- Countering scientism: an essay by Marsha Newman
- The striking parallels: an interview with Phil Cousineau
- The sacred dimensions of everyday life: an interview with Jeffrey Kane
- Demystifying spiritual practice: an essay by Huston Smith, with commentary by Sarah Ben Breathnach
- The varieties of religious explorations: an interview tih Jeffrey Mishlove
- Cleansing the doors of perception: an interview with Richard Scheinin
- Fathoming psychedelic mysticism: an interview with Timothy White
- The wisdom of faith: an interview with Bill Moyers
- Why religion matters now more than ever: an interview with Phil Cousineau.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520238168
- 0520244893
- OCLC:
- 51535967
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