by Huston Smith · HarperOne · tapa dura · ISBN 9780060670993
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Why Religion Matters» is Huston Smith's essay on the role of religion, published by HarperOne in hardcover (304 pages, in English).
Smith reflects on how scientism, materialism, and consumerism have marginalized morality, meaning, and truth in contemporary society. The author reviews three major historical stages —traditional, modern, and postmodern— to defend the relevance of traditional religious wisdom and advocates recovering religion as a humanizing force, without renouncing modern achievements such as equal rights or democratic freedom.
Huston Smith includes in this work his defense of religion against the dominant technological and materialist paradigm. The book appeared in 2000 and belongs to the genre of religion, philosophy, and history, according to the catalog record.
Huston Cummings Smith was an American-Chinese scholar of religious studies, He authored at least thirteen books on world's religions and philosophy, and his book about comparative religion, The World's Religions sold over three million copies as of 2017.
