Remembering in a world of forgetting: thoughts on tradition and postmodernism
by William Stoddart; edited by Mateus Soares de Azevedo and Alberto Vasconcellos Queiroz
Remembering in a world of forgetting: thoughts on tradition and postmodernism
المؤلف
by William Stoddart; edited by Mateus Soares de Azevedo and Alberto Vasconcellos Queirozالناشر
World Wisdomطبع 1
قائمة
شناسنامه
العنوان واسم المؤلف
Remembering in a world of forgetting: thoughts on tradition and postmodernism / by William Stoddart; edited by Mateus Soares de Azevedo and Alberto Vasconcellos Queirozبيانات النشر
بلومینگتون : World Wisdom، 2008مالمواصفات الشكلية
xvii, 160 p.: ill.; 23 cm.الموضوع
Postmodernism Religious aspectsTradition (Theology)
Mysticism
مسلسل
(The library of perennial philosophyThe library of perennial philosophy؛ )اللغة
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references )p. 141-341( and indexes.
المحتويات
Forgetting : decline or what we have forgotten -- Progress or the Kali-Yuga? -- Meaning behind the absurd -- Traditional and modern civilization -- Ideological obstacles to the spiritual life -- Religious and ethnic conflict -- The flaws of the evolutionist hypothesis -- The flaws of democracy -- Remembering (theory) : truth or what we have to know -- What is religion? -- What is orthodoxy? -- What is the intellect? -- Frithjof Schuon and the perennialist school -- The masculine and the feminine -- The role of culture in education -- Remembering (practice) : spirituality or what we have to do -- What is mysticism? -- The role of obedience in spirituality -- Spirituality in Islam : aspects of Islamic esoterism -- Spirituality in Christianity : a visit to Mount Athos -- Spirituality in Hinduism : a visit to the Jagadguru -- Spirituality in Buddhism : the meaning of Tantra