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A Setback to the Dialogue: Response to Huston Smith
Author(s) -
Goodenough Ursula
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/0591-2385.00350
Subject(s) - evocation , sensibility , siege , setback , mysticism , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , art , history , literature , theology , law , political science , archaeology
Huston Smith's book, Why Religion Matters , offers an eloquent evocation of mystical sensibility. Unfortunately, along the way, he offers a strongly negative and often inaccurate account of the scientific worldview, the claim being that the science is laying siege to the spiritual.