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| Studies in Comparative Religion: Annual Edition 1971 |
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Subjects(s):
Comparative Religion
Perennial Philosophy
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Price: $23.95
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ISBN: 978-1-935493-56-3
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Book Size: 8.25x11
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# of Pages: 224
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Language: English
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Description
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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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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“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
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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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