Why Religion Matters and the Purposes of Higher Education: A Dialogue with Huston Smith

This article examines Huston Smith's critique of and remedy for modernity from the perspective of a college professor who adopted “Why Religion Matters” (2001) as required reading for undergraduates. Smith's heartfelt plea to consider, if not embrace, the common wisdom of traditional relig...

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Subtitles:Higher education as a context for "religion and science"
主要作者: Kenney, Garrett C. (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Zygon
Year: 2015, 卷: 50, 发布: 1, Pages: 227-244
Further subjects:B Theism
B Atheism
B Education
B Science
B 宗教
B Huston Smith
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总结:This article examines Huston Smith's critique of and remedy for modernity from the perspective of a college professor who adopted “Why Religion Matters” (2001) as required reading for undergraduates. Smith's heartfelt plea to consider, if not embrace, the common wisdom of traditional religious worldviews deserves a hearing. But Smith's approach is also in need of qualification, supplementation, and critique. This article, ironically, finds the needed qualification, supplementation, and critique in Huston Smith's much earlier publication, The Purposes of Higher Education (1955). This article provides the dialogue.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12154