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Is There a Universal Grammar of Religion? (Paperback)
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Is There a Universal Grammar of Religion? (Paperback)
Series: Master Hsuan Hua Memorial Lecture
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In this provocative volume two important scholars of religion,
Huston Smith and Henry Rosemont, Jr., put forth their viewpoints
and share a probing conversation. Though the two diverge
considerably in their accounts of religious faith and practice,
they also agree on fundamental points. Huston Smith, author of the
important work "The World's Religions," has long argued for the
fundamental equality of the world's religions. Describing a
"universal grammar of religion," he argues that fourteen points of
similarity exist among all of the major religious traditions and
that these similarities indicate an innate psychological affinity
for religion within the human spirit. As Noam Chomsky has argued
that humans are hardwired to use language, Smith similarly argues
that humans are hardwired for religious experience. In response,
Rosemont explicates his humanistic vision of the world, in which
the "homoversal" tendency to contemplate the infinite is part of
our co-humanity that endures across time, space, language, and
culture. Rosemont also elaborates upon Noam Chomsky's theory of
universal grammar and its relevance to Smith's ideas about the
similarities among religions. This insightful exploration of the
most essential basis of religion provides a new direction for
comparative-religion scholars everywhere.
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