Cover of Beyond the Post-Modern Mind: The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization

Beyond the Post-Modern Mind: The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization

by Huston Smith · 1982

+ Want to read

This new edition of acclaimed essays explores sea changes in the relationship between religion and science over the course of Western culture and suggest possible breakthroughs toward reaching an enlightened consciousness.

Subject
philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
religionreligionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 295 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare prices

Liked Beyond the Post-Modern Mind: The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Beyond the Post-Modern Mind: The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Belief Gianni Vattimo · 1996 Shares philosophy, religion, nonfiction
  2. Religion: If There is No God...on God, the Devil, Sin and Other Worries of the So-Called Philosophy of Religion Leszek Kolakowski · 1982 Shares philosophy, religion, nonfiction
  3. Free onlineFree
    An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent John Henry Newman · 1870 Shares philosophy, religion, theology
  4. Postmodernism, Reason and Religion Ernest Gellner · 1992 Shares philosophy, religion, postmodernism
See more recommendations →

“People who read Beyond the Post-Modern Mind: The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Free onlineFree Scepticism and Animal Faith George Santayana · 1923
  2. Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context Glen H. Stassen, David P. Gushee · 2003
  3. A History of Philosophy, Vol. 8: Modern Philosophy, Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America Frederick Charles Copleston · 1966
  4. Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness · 2005

“If you want more of the same (philosophy about religion), start with these.”

  1. Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative & Imagination Paul Ricoeur · 1995
  2. Making Sense of It All: Pascal and the Meaning of Life Thomas V. Morris · 1992
  3. The Coherence of Theism Richard Swinburne · 1977
  4. Philosophy of Religion John Harwood Hick · 1963

“If it was the religion that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Who Knows?: A Study of Religious Consciousness Raymond M. Smullyan · 2003
  2. Treatise on Happiness Thomas Aquinas, John A. Oesterle · 1991
  3. Religion in the Making Alfred North Whitehead · 1926
  4. Critique of Religion and Philosophy Walter Kaufmann · 1961

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self Marilynne Robinson · 2010
  2. On Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw · 1931
  3. Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? Daniel C. Dennett, Alvin Plantinga · 2010
  4. Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience Pim van Lommel · 2007

Report a problem