The World's ReligionsThe Worlds Religions, by beloved author and pioneering professor Huston Smith (Tales of Wonder), is the definitive classic for introducing the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as regional native traditions. This revised and updated edition provides sympathetic descriptions of the various traditions, explaining how they work from

and political richness of this account makes The Impossible State a new standard against which any claims about the possibility of establishing Islamic governance in the contemporary world must now be evaluated

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In prose that mingles gritty vernacular cadences with exalted biblical rhythms

The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954

focuses on mechanisms of traditional education that cripple imagination

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It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality

The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975

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but the insights contained in Greek tragedy have also shaped our perceptions of the nature of human life

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