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" Tales of wonder : "
Huston Smith and Jeffery Paine.
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BL
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1013821
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b768191
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| Main Entry
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Smith, Huston.
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| Title & Author
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Tales of wonder : : adventures chasing the divine : an autobiography /\ Huston Smith and Jeffery Paine.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: HarperOne/HarperCollins Publishers,, 2009.
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xxv, 209 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0061154261
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: 9780061154263
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Prologue: The explorer -- The horizontal dimension -- My life in historical time -- Coming of age in a sacred universe -- An American education -- The career beneath the career -- Family : the operetta -- The vertical dimension -- Living in sacred time -- My soul of Christianity -- My three other religions -- Three final frontiers -- Epilogue: Reflections upon turning ninety.
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| Abstract
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Documents the world religion scholar's life and experiences with people who shaped the twentieth century, including Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ram Dass, in an account that also traces the adventures he had in pursuit of his influential research.
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Smith, Huston.
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Smith, Huston.
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Religious biography.
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Religious biography.
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| Dewey Classification
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200.92B
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| LC Classification
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BL73.S645A3 2009
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K837.125.46=6clc
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Paine, Jeffery,1944-
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