The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought - Softcover

Pelikan collects some 66 articles or excerpts from 19th- and 20th-century literature, anthropology, religion, psychology, theology, and philosophy that touch upon religion and religious experience. The writers are as diverse as Kierkegaard and Black Elk, Teilhard de Chardin and Martin Luther King, with representatives of all the major world religions, East and West. While many of the pieces are well known, Pelikan includes a number of less familiar but welcome articles, such as Martin Lings's "The Reality of Sufism" and Nishida Kitaro's "A Study of Good." Pelikan has done the general reader a great service, making accessible a broad and intelligent collection of some of the best thinking on religion. Recommended for undergraduate as well as public libraries.
- T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
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