Michael Oren Fitzgerald

Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) is the foremost representative of the "Perennialist" or "Traditionalist" school of comparative religious thought. Michael Fitzgerald's book is the most comprehensive biographical study of Schuon to date-one which shows how Schuon expressed his message not only in his majestic metaphysical works but in poetry, in painting and in the disciplines of daily life. Appropriate and concise quotations from Schuon's articles, books, memoirs and correspondence are combined with a wealth of reliable information from people who knew Schuon well. Readers are thus given valuable tools to help clarify and deepen their understanding of Frithjof Schuon's life and works. With more than a dozen colour illustrations and over 40 sepia photographs, this biography should become a standard reference work for all future studies of Schuon.

A sympathetic introduction to the Islamic faith challenges popular misunderstandings while demonstrating that Islam accepts the validity of other faiths, in a resource that offers insight into the potential for inter-faith harmony, features quotes from central Islamic sources, and includes lavish illustrations of Muslim art and architecture. Original.

Containing a wide variety of early Christian art, from sources as varied as the Coptic and Celtic traditions and wide-ranging quotations from Christian saints and sages of the first one and a half millennia of Christianity, this book invites the reader to reflect upon the beauty and wisdom of the Christian spirit. The visual and written treasures contained in this volume formed the sacred foundation of the early Church and established a tradition which may even now be traced back to the Gospels. Though specifically Christian in content, the book in hand should provide a source of spiritual inspiration to seekers of all faiths. What is the essential message of the great saints and sages in the first one and a half millennia of Christianity? Is there a unifying doctrine within the different branches of the Christian Church? Are there common spiritual Truths that exist within each of the world's great religions? The gem-like selections of art and writings in Christian Spirit cover the first one and a half millennia of Christianity beginning shortly after the death of the Christ. All spiritual seekers regardless of specific religious affiliation will the inspired by the beauty and wisdom contained in this book.

Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life. As the principal figure in the Crow-Shoshone Sun Dance religion, Yellowtail has preserved traditional values in the face of the constantly encroaching, diametrically opposed values of materialistic modern socity. Through his life story and description of the Sun Dance religion we can reexamine the premises and orientations of both cultures.