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
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第一次讀這本書是2002年,很感動。不隻是感動於休斯頓·史密斯那種平靜而睿智的講述,就是編者那份前言,也讓我欷歔瞭半天。 每次看到報上報道有多少大學生找不到工作,或有某某大學生潑硫酸、跳樓,我就不禁想:我們教育怎麼瞭?我們的學生怎麼瞭?除瞭呆闆的應試,除瞭機械的...
評分內容:★★★★★ 翻譯:★★★★☆ 排印:★★★★☆ 裝幀:★★★★☆ 對於宗教這樣唯心的話題,平時幾乎不會和其他人探討。無論如何開始,最終都會以嘴官司結束——因為每個人的生活體驗不同。即使是同一教派的信徒,也經常因不同的宗教體驗爭得麵紅耳赤,直至通過符咒詛咒...
評分拋掉那些現實的影響,我們在此聚焦在教義本身。似乎所有的宗教都在以這樣或那樣的形式談論著一個更高的真實,它也許總是不可捉摸的,寄托著我們種種渴望。不同的宗教會賦予它一些不同的品質,那麼多都談起愛——這可能是人類靈魂中最深刻的、不安的渴望。我們深覺自己之不完整...
評分內容:★★★★★ 翻譯:★★★★☆ 排印:★★★★☆ 裝幀:★★★★☆ 對於宗教這樣唯心的話題,平時幾乎不會和其他人探討。無論如何開始,最終都會以嘴官司結束——因為每個人的生活體驗不同。即使是同一教派的信徒,也經常因不同的宗教體驗爭得麵紅耳赤,直至通過符咒詛咒...
評分拋掉那些現實的影響,我們在此聚焦在教義本身。似乎所有的宗教都在以這樣或那樣的形式談論著一個更高的真實,它也許總是不可捉摸的,寄托著我們種種渴望。不同的宗教會賦予它一些不同的品質,那麼多都談起愛——這可能是人類靈魂中最深刻的、不安的渴望。我們深覺自己之不完整...
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讀瞭佛教章,作者的視角不是曆史的,也不是文獻學的,或者哲學的。難道這就是傳說中的宗教學路數?書中說四聖諦之二是tanha, 似與十二因緣相混淆。又譯大小乘之乘為舟,很奇怪。說大乘的priest可以結婚,不通。所引資料與圖書,除Conze的Buddhist Scriptures較正經,其它都是些未聽說過的英語暢銷書。
評分這個,超級通俗!!!推薦
評分說不上是巨著,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」,隻好速速看完它。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
評分讀瞭佛教章,作者的視角不是曆史的,也不是文獻學的,或者哲學的。難道這就是傳說中的宗教學路數?書中說四聖諦之二是tanha, 似與十二因緣相混淆。又譯大小乘之乘為舟,很奇怪。說大乘的priest可以結婚,不通。所引資料與圖書,除Conze的Buddhist Scriptures較正經,其它都是些未聽說過的英語暢銷書。
評分重要的不是對某一宗教理解上的客觀與全麵,重要的是作者去觀察的視角,重要的是其反復斟酌終於下筆直至定稿時候嘴角的所有微笑,重要的是那顆想要去理解的心,想要去傾聽的耳朵,最重要的是這一切背後流露齣的愛。而這正正是宗教的本質,這與此書是否通俗是否為入門讀物的爭論毫無關聯。且不說各個宗教的敘述,單單是前言與結尾中便有很多值得抄錄的段落。行文考究,取捨有度,又可作救急的工具書,這樣的書是可以打五星的!另作者采訪剋裏希那穆提的視頻很是有趣,諸君有緣可找來一探究竟。
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