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Studies in Comparative Religion - Commemorative Annual Edition 1971
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Comparative Religion
Perennial Philosophy

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ISBN:  978-1-935493-56-3
Book Size:  8.25x11
# of Pages:  224
Language:  English



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This is a commemorative volume containing the four issues from 1971 of the British journal Studies in Comparative Religion. It features a broad spectrum of essays from many of the most important European and American writers on spiritual Traditionalism or the Perennial Philosophy.
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Detailed Description of Studies in Comparative Religion: Annual Edition 1971

This is a commemorative volume containing the four issues from 1971 of the British journal Studies in Comparative Religion. It features a broad spectrum of essays from many of the most important European and American writers on spiritual Traditionalism or the Perennial Philosophy. Studies in Comparative Religion was founded in Britain in 1963 by Francis Clive-Ross (1921–1981) and is the first and most comprehensive English-language journal of traditional studies. The journal was published under the name Tomorrow until 1967, when it was changed to its present name. Four quarterly issues per year, containing over 1,200 articles in total, were published during the first 25 years of Studies in Comparative Religion’s existence, before its publication was interrupted in 1987.

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Francis Clive-Ross

F. Clive-Ross was the founder, publisher and editor of the journal Studies in Comparative Religion and its predecessor Tomorrow. For nearly 20 years under Clive-Ross’ guidance, Studies was one of the predominant platforms for discussion of all issues to pertaining to comparative religious studies. Clive-Ross also founded the publishing house, Perennial Books Ltd, and was a trustee of the “World of Islam Festival”. He died in 1981.

World Wisdom has proudly sponsored a new beginning for Studies. All of the original issues are being placed on a custom website: www.studiesincomparativereligion.com. Mr. Clive-Ross's editorials appear in the compilations of Studies in Comparative Religion issues published by World Wisdom:


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Reviews of Studies in Comparative Religion: Annual Edition 1971

“One of the most interesting intellectual developments of the 1960s was the publication in England of a periodical called Studies in Comparative Religion. When it first came across my desk, it had seemed to me merely another gray scholarly journal—an impression that was only strengthened by its stated pur pose of presenting essays concerning ‘traditional studies.’ Like many Americans, I was put off by the very word ‘tradition.’ But I pressed on because I had heard that this journal contained some of the most serious thinking of the twentieth century. “And in fact I quickly saw that its contributors were not interested in the hypothesizing and the marshaling of piecemeal evidence that characterizes the work of most academicians. On close reading, I felt an extraordinary intellectual force radiating through their intricate prose. These men were out for the kill. For them, the study of spiritual traditions was a sword with which to destroy the illusions of contemporary man…. “All I could have said defi nitely was that they seemed to take metaphysical ideas more seriously than one might have thought possible. It was as though for them such ideas were the most real things in the world. They conformed their thought to these ideas in the way the rest of us tend to conform our thought to material things. Perhaps it was this aspect that gave their essays a fl avor that was both slightly archaic and astonishingly fresh at the same time.... “That these writings bring something that has been entirely lacking in Western religious thought is therefore not open to question. But that is not the court at which their work deserves to be judged, nor would they wish it so. Something much more serious is at stake than merely renewing the comparative study of religion throughout the land….” —Jacob Needleman, San Francisco State College, Editor for The Penguin Metaphysical Library

Table of Contents for Studies in Comparative Religion: Annual Edition 1971

Vol. 5, #1, Winter 1971

Oriental Dialectic and Its Roots in Faith by Frithjof Schuon   3
The Heart and the Cave by René Guénon   24
Arab or Islamic Art? by Titus Burckhardt   27
The Seven Deadly Sins by Martin Lings   35
Intellectual Freedom by Lord Northbourne   41
The Round of Existence by Harold Talbott   50
Book Reviews    59

Vol. 5, #2, Spring 1971

Remarks on an Enigma of the Koan by Frithjof Schuon   71
The Mountain and the Cave by René Guénon   74
The Symbolism of Archery by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy    77
The Crisis of Hinduism by A.K. Saran    92
Spiritual Currents in Music by Jocelyn Godwin   106
Book Reviews   118
Correspondence   120

Vol. 5, #3, Summer 1971

The Human Margin (Part 1) by Frithjof Schuon    123
Notes on the Shaikh al-‘Alawī (1869-1934) by Michel Vâlsan    134
The Sexual Relationship in Christian Thought by Philip Sherrard    139
Why Exhibit Works of Art? by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy    155
Book Reviews   163

Vol. 5, #4, Autumn 1971

The Human Margin (Part 2) by Frithjof Schuon   173
Councils of a Sufi Master by R. W. J. Austin    183
Realization: From a Christian Point of View by Dorothea Deed    189
Shinran’s Indebtedness to T’an-luan by Shōjun Bandō    193
Mysticism and Traditional Philosophy in Persia, Pre-Islamic and Islamic    204
   by Seyyed Hossein Nasr   
The Meaning of the Temple by Leo Schaya    209
Book Reviews    213
Correspondence   217



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