Book Summary
This book offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and "realistic" approach to the "full range" of worldviews, showing how, whether religious or secular, they define the human values that drive the engines of both continuity and change worldwide. It shows readers the "dynamics" of each tradition, and emphasizes that although the various traditions may all share similar aspects, they each assign varying levels of "importance" to specific areas. Explores the major religious traditions and secular ideologies (Marxism, nationalisms, scientific humanism) from six dimensions: experiential/emotional; narrative/mythic; doctrinal/philosophical; ethical/legal; ritual/practical; and social/organizational. For anyone interested in comparative worldviews, religious and secular.
Book Details
| Book Name | Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations Of Human Beliefs |
| Author | Ninian Smart |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall (Jun 1999) |
| ISBN | 9780130209801 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1941 |
