The Betrayal of Tradition: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity (Library of Perennial Philosophy)

Series Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
“NO ACTIVITY WITHOUT TRUTH” - Frithjof Schuon......Page 22
A MATERIAL CIVILIZATION - René Guénon......Page 34
TRADITION AND THE INDIVIDUAL - Brian Keeble......Page 50
INDIA AND THE MODERN WORLD - Kathleen Raine......Page 64
ANCIENT BELIEFS OR MODERN SUPERSTITIONS:THE SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY - Rama P. Coomaraswamy......Page 74
FAITH AND MODERNITY - Karen Armstrong......Page 92
THE LOGIC OF MYSTERY AND THE NECESSITY OF FAITH - Timothy Scott......Page 108
“FUNDAMENTALISM”:A METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE - M. Ali Lakhani......Page 120
RUDOLF STEINER, ANTHROPOSOPHY, AND TRADITION - Rodney Blackhirst......Page 126
THE BUGBEAR OF DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM, AND EQUALITY - Ananda K. Coomaraswamy......Page 140
ONE FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE:THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY IN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN CONTEXTS - Patrick Laude......Page 170
ISLAMIC COSMOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF FEMININITY AND THE MODERN FEMINIST MOVEMENT - Fatima Jane Casewit......Page 190
THE DESACRALIZATION OF WORK - Roger Sworder......Page 202
WHY WORK? - Dorothy Sayers......Page 236
ENVISIONING THE FUTURE - Robert Aitken......Page 248
“PROGRESS” IN RETROSPECT - Wolfgang Smith......Page 268
SPIRITUALITY AND SCIENCE—CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE? - Seyyed Hossein Nasr......Page 294
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION - Titus Burckhardt......Page 306
DESCARTES’ ANGEL: REFLECTIONS ON THE TRUE ART OF THINKING - Theodore Roszak......Page 320
PUTTING NATURE IN HER PLACE - Mary Midgley......Page 332
NEVER SAY DIE ... WITHOUT A CAUSE - Brian Coman......Page 342
MAKE YOUR CHOICE - Thomas Yellowtail......Page 352
THE FATE OF TIBET - Anagarika Govinda......Page 364
TOWARDS A NEW DREAMING - James Cowan......Page 368
EPILOGUE - Philip Sherrard......Page 378
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 384
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 388
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE......Page 394
INDEX......Page 396