| Description |
386 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Library of perennial philosophy |
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Perennial philosophy series |
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Library of perennial philosophy.
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Perennial philosophy series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"No activity without truth" / Frithjof Schuon -- A material civilization / Rene Guenon -- Tradition and the individual / Brian Keeble -- India and the modern world / Kathleen Raine -- Ancient beliefs or modern superstitions : the search for authenticity / Rama P. Coomaraswamy -- Faith and modernity / Karen Armstrong -- The logic of mystery and the necessity of faith / Timothy Scott -- "Fundamentalism" : a metaphysical perspective / M. Ali Lakhani -- Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophy, and tradition / Rodney Blackhirst -- The bugbear of democracy, freedom, and equality / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy -- One for all, all for one : the individual and the community in traditional and modern contexts / Patrick Laude -- Islamic cosmological concepts of femininity and the modern feminist movement / Fatima Jane Casewit -- The desacralization of work / Roger Sworder -- Why work? / Dorothy Sayers -- Envisioning the future / Robert Aitken -- "Progress" in retrospect / Wolfgang Smith -- Spirituality and science: convergence or divergence? / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- The theory of evolution / Titus Burckhardt -- Descartes' angel : reflections on the true art of thinking / Theodore Roszak -- Putting nature in her place / Mary Midgley -- Never say die without a cause / Brian Coman -- Make your choice / Thomas Yellowtail -- The fate of Tibet / Anagarika Govinda -- Towards a new dreaming / James Cowan -- Epilogue / Philip Sherrard. |
| Subject |
Modernism (Christian theology)
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Tradition (Theology)
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| Added Author |
Oldmeadow, Harry, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0941532550 paperback alkaline paper |
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