Remembering in a World of Forgetting: Thoughts on Tradition and Postmodernism

by William Stoddart

Overview

This book contains a wide-ranging selection of writings by “perennialist” author William Stoddart that expose the many false ideologies of postmodernism (“forgetting”) and call for a return to traditional religion, especially in its mystical dimensions (“remembering”).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933316826
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	11/29/2007
Series:	Perennial Philosophy Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
Lexile:	1260L (what's this?)
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

William Stoddart was born at Carstairs in Scotland in 1925. He studied modern languages, and later medicine, at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin. His previous books include: Sufism: The Mystical Doctrines and Methods of Islam (1976; editions in seven languages), Outline of Hinduism (1993), and Outline of Buddhism (1998).

Mateus Soares de Azevedo is an author, translator, editor, and journalist from Minas Gerais, central Brazil. He is the author of a number of books and dozens of articles and essays dealing with the importance of traditional religion and spirituality in the contemporary world, some of them translated into English and Spanish. He has also translated a number of books by Guénon, Schuon, Lings, and other Perennialist figures into Portugese.

Table of Contents

Preface   Alberto Vasconcellos Queiroz     xi
Introduction   Mateus Soares de Azevedo     xiii
Editors' Note     xvii
Forgetting Decline or what we have forgotten: "They reckon ill who leave Me out" Ralph Waldo Emerson (from his poem "Brahma")
Progress or the Kali-Yuga?     3
Meaning behind the Absurd     7
Traditional and Modern Civilization     13
Ideological Obstacles to the Spiritual Life     17
Religious and Ethnic Conflict     23
The Flaws of the Evolutionist Hypothesis     33
The Flaws of Democracy     35
Remembering (theory) Truth or what we have to know: "Ye shall know the Truth" (John, 8, 32)
What is Religion?     41
What is Orthodoxy?     43
What is the Intellect?     45
Frithjof Schuon and the Perennialist School     51
The Masculine and the Feminine     67
The Role of Culture in Education     77
Remembering (practice) Spirituality or what we have to do: "Remember God with much remembrance" (Koran, 33, 41)
What is Mysticism?     85
The Role of Obedience in Spirituality     97
Spirituality in Islam: Aspects of Islamic Esoterism     99
Spirituality in Christianity: A Visit to Mount Athos     107
Spirituality in Hinduism: A Visit to the Jagadguru     115
Spirituality in Buddhism: The Meaning of Tantra     121
Excerpts from Letters     125
Biography of William Stoddart   Mateus Soares de Azevedo     135
Sources     143
Glossary     145
Biographical Notes     149
Subject Index     151
Index of Peoples, Persons, and Places     157