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Huston Smith

Author of The World's Religions : Our Great Wisdom Traditions

Includes the names: Huston Smith, Huston Smith, Houston Smith

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The World's Religions : Our Great Wisdom Traditions 2,111 copies, 17 reviews
The Religions of Man 805 copies, 2 reviews
The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions 530 copies, 4 reviews
Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief 492 copies, 3 reviews
The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition 237 copies, 2 reviews
Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions 176 copies
Buddhism: A Concise Introduction 151 copies, 3 reviews
Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of… 119 copies
Beyond the Post-Modern Mind (Quest Book) 102 copies, 1 review
The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life 84 copies, 1 review
Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography 84 copies, 6 reviews
Islam: A Concise Introduction 53 copies
Gregorian Chant: Songs of the Spirit (Editor) 28 copies
A Seat at the Table: Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on… 26 copies, 1 review

Essays on World Religion 22 copies

Religions of the World 14 copies

And Live Rejoicing: Chapters from a Charmed Life — Personal… 12 copies, 1 review

The Huston Smith Reader: Edited, with an Introduction, by Jeffery Paine 8 copies, 1 review

One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church 8 copies

Speculum Spinozanum, 1677-1977 7 copies

The Purposes of Higher Education 5 copies

The Search for America (A Penetrating Analysis of the Problems and Choices… 5 copies

The Big Picture: What the Religions of the World Teach Us 5 copies

A essência das religiões 4 copies

Understanding Islam 4 copies

Condemned to meaning 3 copies

Talking to God : portrait of a world at prayer 3 copies

islamic Mysticism: The Sufi Way 2 copies

World's Religions, The 2 copies

Portrait of a radical, Q & A 2 copies

The Wisdom of Faith: Islam 2 copies

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The Bhagavad Gita (Introduction, some editions) 6,220 copies, 61 reviews
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Preface, some editions) 2,872 copies, 28 reviews
The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way (Introduction, some editions) 1,205 copies, 20 reviews
The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling (Foreword, some editions) 565 copies, 9 reviews
Great Religions of the World 391 copies, 3 reviews
The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions (Foreword, some editions) 341 copies, 4 reviews
Meister Eckhart Vol 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and… (Foreword, some editions) 233 copies
Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics (Preface) 67 copies
Creed & Culture: A Touchstone Reader (Contributor) 43 copies
Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of… (Contributor) 20 copies, 1 review
Philosophical Issues: A Contemporary Introduction (Contributor) 13 copies
Theologians in Their Own Words (Contributor) 7 copies
A Zen life : D.T. Suzuki [video recording] (Interviewee) 3 copies, 1 review
Rumi poet of the heart [video recording] 3 copies

Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Contributor) 2 copies

A Crisis Of Faith: the series (Contributor) 2 copies

The roots of fundamentalism : a conversation with Huston Smith & Phil… (Contributor) 2 copies

Modernity and religion (Contributor) 1 copy

Food for the Soul : Lunch with Bokara TV Series [video recording] (Guest) 1 copy, 1 review

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Berkeley, California, USA

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