Dimensions of the sacred : an anatomy of the world's beliefs / Ninian Smart.
Dimensions of the sacred : an anatomy of the world's beliefs / Ninian Smart.
Dimensions of the sacred : an anatomy of the world's beliefs / Ninian Smart.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.
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T0380604
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English
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xxviii, 331 p. ; 24 cm.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.
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California
Date Published
c1996.
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Smart identifies seven similarities uniting these systems of belief. Whether religious or secular, all world views have elements of ritual - worship, meditation, pilgrimage, and sacrifice - and an edifice of doctrine and philosophy. All world views likewise share a mythic dimension that uses fictional and historical narratives to present and interp...
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Dimensions of the sacred : an anatomy of the world's beliefs / Ninian Smart.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311) and index.
Transferred from N291.2/5.
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c1996.
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T0380604
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvZ6roXZMM
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0520207777 (alk. paper)
9780520207776 (alk. paper)
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291.2
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991004546959702626
