And Live Rejoicing
Chapters from a Charmed Life - Personal Encounters with Spiritual Mavericks, Remarkable Seekers, and the World's Great Religious Leaders
1st Edition
Published on 22. August 2012
248 pages
978-1-60868-072-6 (ISBN)
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Spiritual trailblazer Huston Smith has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytelling flair as he has in these pages. Few have done as much as Smith to explore and illuminate the world's religions and spiritual traditions, and none have done it with such accessibility, wonder, and delight. In this joyous volume, he looks back on his extraordinary life, describing riveting scenes with unforgettable characters in India, Africa, Tibet, and Japan. Smith's charm and exuberance come through on every page.
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And Live Rejoicing
Chapters from a Charmed Life - Personal Encounters with Spiritual Mavericks, Remarkable Seekers, and the World's Great Religious Leaders
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09/2012
New World Library
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Huston Smith is recognized and revered as the preeminent teacher of world religions. Smith has taught at Washington University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has written fifteen books, including the classic The World's Religions, which has sold over two million copies in many translations, and the New York Times bestseller Why Religion Matters. He has been bestowed with twelve honorary degrees and was the focus of the five-part television series The Wisdom of Faith hosted by Bill Moyers.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedicatoin
- Contents
- Prologue: Oh, Happy Day
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by Phil Cousineau
- Part I
- Chapter One: Saving the Moon and Other Memories of a Boyhood in China
- Chapter Two: College Life in the Heartland
- Chapter Three: Launching My Career
- Chapter Four: Out of the Mouths of Babes
- Chapter Five: Being Driven Temporarily Psychotic in Kyoto's Temple of the Marvelous Mind
- Chapter Six: Our Love Affair with the World
- Chapter Seven: A Globe-Circling Adventure
- Chapter Eight: Being Detained and Interrogated in the World's Largest Police Station
- Chapter Nine: Magic and Mystery on the Roof of the World
- Chapter Ten: Lions on the Serengeti Plain
- Chapter Eleven: Be Ever at the Ready as You Ramble
- Part II
- Chapter Twelve: Improbables
- Chapter Thirteen: Primal Religions, Primal Passions
- Chapter Fourteen: Surprised by Existence
- Chapter Fifteen: What's It All About?
- Part III
- Chapter Sixteen: Fame at My Elbow
- Chapter Seventeen: How Philosophy Heals
- Epilogue: Famous Last Words
- Notes
- Index
- About Huston Smith
- About Phil Cousineau
