Huston Smith is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Syracuse University. For fifteen years he was Professor of Philosophy at M.I.T. and for a decade before that he taught at Washington University in St. Louis. Most recently he has served as Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Holder of twelve honorary degrees, Smith’s fourteen books include The World’s Religions which has sold over 2 ½ million copies, and Why Religion Matters which won the Wilbur Award for the best book on religion published in 2001. In 1996 Bill Moyers devoted a 5-part PBS Special, The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith, to his life and work. His film documentaries on Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sufism have all won International. awards, and The Journal of Ethnomusicology lauded his discovery of Tibetan multiphonic chanting, Music of Tibet, as “an important landmark in the study of music."
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The World's Religions, by Huston Smith, has been a standard introduction to its eponymous subject since its first publication in 1958. Smith writes humbly, forswearing judgment on the validity of world religions. His introduction asks, "How does it all sound from above? Like bedlam, or do the strains blend in strange, ethereal harmony? ... We cannot know. All we can do is try to listen carefully and with full attention to each voice in turn as it addresses the divine. Such listening defines the purpose of this book." His criteria for inclusion and analysis of religions in this book are "relevance to the modern mind" and "universality," and his interest in each religion is more concerned with its principles than its context. Therefore, he avoids cataloging the horrors and crimes of which religions have been accused, and he attempts to show each "at their best." Yet The World's Religions is no pollyannaish romp: "It is about religion alive," Huston writes. "It calls the soul to the highest adventure it can undertake, a proposed journey across the jungles, peaks, and deserts of the human spirit. The call is to confront reality." And by translating the voices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Christianity, and Judaism, among others, Smith has amplified the divine call for generations of readers. --Michael Joseph Gross
最近突然想回头读宗教学,而自己又没有时间读大部头。找了一大圈突然发现最适合我的书居然就在我的书柜里面躺着……这已经不是第一次了……究竟应该说是果然多收集一些书比较好,还是应该说收集得太多以至于自己都记不得…… 相比我之前介绍的专业教科书,这本书要容易得多,...
评分想全面的了解一下宗教的发展史,买了《人的宗教》,看后才发现,这本书的价值远高于我的期望,虽然是分章节对世界各大宗教进行议论,但实际上是观点一致的,即对精神力量的承认和为之努力的赞许,特别是对印度教的概括,彻底改变了我对其的看法,看来在印度,印度教取代佛教,...
评分读之我幸,不读我命。不读的话,我会继续在这里徘徊,徘徊。就像他们她们它们一样。 这是一本很好的宗教比较学著作,原来世界的宗教都殊途同归——你以为一神论和泛神论的宗教、一元论和非一元论的宇宙观怎么可能殊途同归?其实只需读到第二章《印度教》就可以知道答案。认识到...
评分宗教就在我们身边,信仰也在我们的心底 ——读休斯顿.史密斯[《人的宗教》(“The world`s religions”) 《人的宗教》这本书从买来到读完已经过去三个多月了。一方面因为同时有很多书在读,手提包里,办公室里;家里就更多了:沙发上、床头柜、吧台、摇椅到处都有没读...
评分翻译烂到令人难忍,怀孕的人看了心口堵着一口气,宗教被作者一翻译,更没什么好感了 太艰涩难懂了,很多句子理解起来非常拗口,怪我语文水平不好咯?看了这么多书,第一次这么诟病翻译能力 真的看了我很想撕书,前面的序就想撕书了 ,我以为到了正文会好些,再看印度教的时候真...
重要的不是对某一宗教理解上的客观与全面,重要的是作者去观察的视角,重要的是其反复斟酌终于下笔直至定稿时候嘴角的所有微笑,重要的是那颗想要去理解的心,想要去倾听的耳朵,最重要的是这一切背后流露出的爱。而这正正是宗教的本质,这与此书是否通俗是否为入门读物的争论毫无关联。且不说各个宗教的叙述,单单是前言与结尾中便有很多值得抄录的段落。行文考究,取舍有度,又可作救急的工具书,这样的书是可以打五星的!另作者采访克里希那穆提的视频很是有趣,诸君有缘可找来一探究竟。
评分这个,超级通俗!!!推荐
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评分religion at its best
评分說不上是巨著,但作為入門書或教科書卻十分不錯,本來無打算要讀它,全因教學之故,所謂「陪太子讀書」,只好速速看完它。不喜歡他口水多多,但對故事的編排和重點的鋪陳都是有水準的,而者對各個宗教的重點都掌握得很好,並十分客觀持平
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