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| Studies in Comparative Religion: Annual Edition 1974 |
| This page includes Studies in Comparative Religion: Commemorative Annual Edition 1974 description, table of contents, more. |
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Subjects(s):
Comparative Religion
Perennial Philosophy
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Price: $23.95
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ISBN: 978-1-936597-01-7
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Book Size: 8.25" x 11.75"
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# of Pages: 192
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Language: English
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Description
This is a commemorative volume containing all of the four issues from 1974 of the British traditionalist journal Studies in Comparative Religion. The compilation has 17 essays or translations from prominent authors such as René Guénon, Lord Northbourne, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, R.W. Austin, Philip Sherrard, Whitall N. Perry, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Bernard Wall, and others. The volume includes the book reviews, some of which are substantive enough to be essays in their own right, from the original editions of Studies.
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This is a commemorative volume containing all of the four issues from 1974 of the British traditionalist journal Studies in Comparative Religion. The compilation has 17 essays or translations from prominent authors such as René Guénon, Lord Northbourne, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, R.W. Austin, Philip Sherrard, Whitall N. Perry, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Bernard Wall, and others. The volume includes the book reviews, some of which are substantive enough to be essays in their own right, from the original editions of Studies.
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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 purpose 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 definitely 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 flavor 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. 8, #1, Winter 1974
The Question of Theodicies by Frithjof Schuon
Knowledge and its Counterfeit by Gai Eaton
The New Eschatology by Lord Northbourne
A Letter to Disciples in Prison (letter of the Shaykh al-Darqawi) by R. W. Austin
The Influence of Greek on Indian Art by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
The History of the Holy Grail (Prologue and Introduction) Translated by Adrian Paterson from the 12th century French of the Sire Robert de Borron
Book Reviews
Vol. 8, #2, Spring 1974
The Mystery of the Two Natures by Frithjof Schuon
Rūmī and the Sufi Tradition by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
A Cross Awry by Lord Northbourne
The Only Heritage We Have by Gai Eaton
The Symbolical Career of Georgios Gemistos Plethon by Philip Sherrard
Book Reviews
Vol. 8, #3, Summer 1974
Form and Substance in the Religions by Frithjof Schuon
Religion and Anti-Religion in Eastern Europe by Peregrinus
What We Are and Where We Are by Gai Eaton
Book Reviews
Vol. 8, #4, Autumn 1974
Images of Islam (Seeds of a Divergence) by Frithjof Schuon
Gurdjieff in the Light of Tradition (part 1) by Whitall N. Perry
Reflections on the Numinous and our Predicament by Bernard Wall
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