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The Meaning and End of Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

The Meaning and End of Religion

Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.

The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-03-15
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

First work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and his influence on the development of religious studies and Islamic studies in the twentieth century. This is the first work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916–2000), whose intellectual and institutional contributions helped shape the field of religious studies in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a young scholar, Smith taught Indian and Islamic history in Lahore for several years and witnessed the partition of India. Upon his return to North America, he obtained his PhD at Princeton University before embarking upon a long and distinguished career. He founded the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGil...

The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Wilfred Cantwell Smith

A new anthology of key writings by one of the most celebrated scholars of comparative religion, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, which makes all his key ideas available at a glance, and features a commentary, cross-referencing, and thematic organization.

The World's Religious Traditions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

The World's Religious Traditions

The aim of this book is to make a major contribution to the field of religious studies while at the same time paying tribute to the work of Wilfred Smith. Although the basis of the chapters is provided by Smith's themes of faith and tradition and Smith's approach to the study of religion, this book stands in its own right as a significant addition to both content and method in the global history of religions. First published in 1984, it includes contributions by Geoffrey Parrinder, Annemarie Schimmel, George Rupp, Ninian Smart and others.

Religious Diversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Religious Diversity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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What Is Scripture?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

What Is Scripture?

W.C. Smith's vastly erudite work asks how it is that certain texts have so seeped in to human life-in a rich, complex, and powerful way-as to be deemed sacred. Examining the history and use of scripture in the world's major religious traditions, he shows how and why scripture continues to carry momentous and at time appalling power in human affairs.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith
  • Language: en

Wilfred Cantwell Smith

For those who have discovered his books, in particular The Meaning and End of Religion, published in 1963, Wilfred Cantwell Smith is one of the most important and attractive figures on the contemporary theological scene. Yet his name is still largely unknown, and his thinking has not made the impact it should have done.

On Understanding Islam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

On Understanding Islam

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Belief and History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156