Huston Smith, Author . Harper San Francisco $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-079478-1
An intriguing combination of apologia, early church history and cultural critique, this deeply personal book attempts to convey the foundations of Christian thought in a way that appeals to modern readers seeking authentic faith in a secular culture.
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Huston Smith, Author HarperOne $32.99 (255p) ISBN 978-0-06-067453-3
In lucid and captivating prose, Smith, the dean of world religionists, conducts readers on a whirlwind tour of the beliefs, practices and experiences of the world's religious traditions. Smith explores the major features of these religions by...
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Huston Smith, Author HarperOne $25 (290p) ISBN 978-0-06-067099-3
In this challenging but accessible book, Smith ardently declaims religion's relevance, taking on luminaries, such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould, who hold that ""only matter exists"" and suggest that religion relates only to ""subjective...
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Huston Smith, Author, Philip Novak, Joint Author . Harper San Francisco $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-050696-4
Bookshelves abound with introductions to Buddhism, many written by luminaries and spiritual giants of the faith. But this primer co-written by Smith, whose magnum opus The World's Religions
has sold more than two million copies, is...
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Huston Smith, Author, Phil Cousineau, Editor . Univ. of California $24.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-520-23816-9
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that he would gladly walk 100 miles through a snowstorm for one good conversation. Fortunately, readers don't have to trudge through a blizzard or even leave their armchairs to listen in on these 22 fascinating...
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Huston Smith, Author, Phil Cousineau, Editor, Gary Rhine, With . Univ. of California $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-520-24439-9
In 1999, Smith, renowned authority on world religions, accompanied a delegation of Native American religious leaders to the World Parliament of Religions in Cape Town, South Africa. These delegates contended that understanding the world's...
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Huston Smith, Author, M. Darrol Bryant, Editor Paragon House Publishers $14.95 (290p) ISBN 978-1-55778-447-6
Marked by clarity, rare philosophical depth and a truly global perspective, these 19 essays in comparative religion are filled with challenging ideas and bold speculations. Smith ( The Religions of Man ) argues that each of the world's three great...
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Houston Smith, Author, Huston Smith, Author Jeremy P. Tarcher $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-58542-034-6
Religion scholar and ""missionary kid"" Smith discovered psychedelic drugs in good company, alongside Timothy Leary and the crowd at Harvard that experimented with LSD, mescaline and psilocybin in the 1960s. In Cleansing the Doors of Perception (the
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Huston Smith with Phil Cousineau. New World Library, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-60868-071-9
At 92, Smith is the closest thing religious studies has to a rock star. A lifelong Christian, he has also danced with Sufi mystics, meditated with Tibetan monks, and taken LSD with Timothy Leary and Ram Dass. He has written eloquently and deeply...
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