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Ninian Smart believes that the modern study of religion should occur in the context of a radical reappraisal of our educational system. This is a worldview analysis of religion appropriate to today's global city. It attacks narrowness whether found in Western philosophy or Christian theology, and argues for a disestablishmentarian stance.
Religion and the Western Mind presents the explosive possibilities of religions — of world views that have the power to shape history. It offers a theory regarding the need of nations for religious justifications. It examines three fundamental backlashes: the Moral Majority, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Gush Emunim. It looks at the contrasting Indian and Sri Lankan responses to Western influence and delineates the Indian tradition in a new way. And finally it diagnoses the future, exploring the ethical inferences of the worldview and supporting a position that runs like a thread through this book.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. RELIGION AND THE WESTERN MIND
1. Religious Studies and the Western Mind
2. The Political Implications of Religious Studies
3. The Intellectual Implications of Religious Studies
Part II. THE WESTERN WORLD AND GLOBAL CHANGE
4. Christianity and Nationalism
5. Resurgence and Identity in Three Faiths
6. The Dynamics of Religious and Political Change: Illustrations from South Asia
7. The Future of Religions
8. A Global Ethic Arising from the Epistemology of Religious and Similar Value-Systems
Notes
Bibliography
Index