]> http://www.wisdomhunter.com/taxonomy/term/106/0 Huston Smith, a former philosophy and religion professor at four major universities, has written 14 books over his 45 year career. His book The World Religions has sold over 2.5 million copies. en http://www.wisdomhunter.com/huston-smith-biography <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><div class="flexinode-textfield-35"><div class="form-item"> <label>First Name:</label><br /> Huston </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textfield-36"><div class="form-item"> <label>Last Name:</label><br /> Smith </div> </div><div class="flexinode-image-37"><div class="form-item"> <label>Author Image:</label><br /> <img src="http://www.wisdomhunter.com/files/HustonSmith.jpg" alt="Huston Smith Biography" /> </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-38"><div class="form-item"> <label>Author Review:</label><br /> <p><a href="an-interview-with-huston-smith">Read an interview with Huston Smith</a></p> <p>Huston Smith, a former philosophy and religion professor at four major universities, has written 14 books over his 45 year career. His book <em >The World’s Religions</em> has sold over 2.5 million copies and is the standard introductory text for dozens of world religion classes in universities across the US. Raised by Methodist minister parents in China, he came to a deep knowledge and appreciation of the various religious wisdom traditions, often by studying them firsthand with spiritual masters. A believer that the major religions are simply organized spirituality, he states that they were revealed by the same god over different points in time in ways that were relevant to and that shaped contemporary culture. In his book <em >The Forgotten Truth,</em> he forwards the notion that the contemporary mind is "science-ridden," following the scientific principles of what we can see in the physical world too far, often forsaking the truths of the spiritual world that we cannot see.</p> </div> </div></div> Authors Huston Smith Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:41:45 -0500 http://www.wisdomhunter.com/the-world-s-religions <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-3"><div class="flexinode-textfield-17"><div class="form-item"> <label>Book Title:</label><br /> The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textfield-18"><div class="form-item"> <label>Author Last Name:</label><br /> Smith </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textfield-19"><div class="form-item"> <label>Author First Name:</label><br /> Huston </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textfield-20"><div class="form-item"> <label>Publisher:</label><br /> HarperSanFrancisco </div> </div><div class="flexinode-number-24"><div class="form-item"> <label>Year Published:</label><br /> 1958 </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textfield-14"><div class="form-item"> <label>ISBN:</label><br /> 0062508113 </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-13"><div class="form-item"> <label>Book Review:</label><br /> <p>Required reading in introductory religion classes for decades, Huston Smith’s well written <em >The World’s Religions</em> goes beyond descriptions of seven major religions and reveals the wisdom behind them. Smith sees all the religions revealed by the same god over time, connected, yet different as appropriate for that time in human history. A personal achievement was the inclusion of an eighth category of religion: The Primal Religions, since it was through personal study that he came to see native religions as valid counterparts to the other seven religions; Smith’s own teachers were dismissive of anything but the seven main religions. In <em >The World’s Religions</em>, you’ll learn: </p> </div> </div><div class="flexinode-number-27"><div class="form-item"> <label>Depth:</label><br /> 3 </div> </div><div class="flexinode-number-33"><div class="form-item"> <label>Tone:</label><br /> 3 </div> </div><div class="flexinode-number-34"><div class="form-item"> <label>Openness:</label><br /> 2 </div> </div></div><p class="awTags_TagLinks">Tags: <a href="tags/57">comparative</a> <a href="tags/58">religion</a> <a href="tags/59">primal</a> </p> comparative religion primal Books Core Bookshelf Huston Smith Higher Consciousness Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:03:06 -0500