The Betrayal of Tradition Essays on the

This collection of essays by eminent traditionalists and contemporary thinkers throws into sharp relief many of the urgent problems of today.

Harry Oldmeadow

Introduction: Signs of the Times and the Light of Tradition

xi

1. Tradition and Modernity

Frithjof Schuon

"No Activity Without Truth"

3

(12)

René Guénon

A Material Civilization

15

(16)

Brian Keeble

Tradition and the Individual

31

(14)

Kathleen Raine

India and the Modern World

45

(10)

2. Perennial Truths and Modern Counterfeits

Rama P. Coomaraswamy

Ancient Beliefs or Modern Superstitions: The Search for Authenticity

55

(18)

Karen Armstrong

Faith and Modernity

73

(16)

Timothy Scott

The Logic of Mystery and the Necessity of Faith

89

(12)

M. Ali Lakhani

"Fundamentalism": A Metaphysical Perspective

101

(6)

Rodney Blackhirst

Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy, and Tradition

107

(14)

3. The Social Order

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

The Bugbear of Democracy, Freedom, and Equality

121

(30)

Patrick Laude

One for All, All for One: The Individual and the Community in Traditional and Modern Contexts

151

(20)

Fatima Jane Casewit

Islamic Cosmological Concepts of Femininity and the Modern Feminist Movement

171

(12)

Roger Sworder

The Desacralization of Work

183

(34)

Dorothy Sayers

Why Work?

217

(12)

Robert Aitken

Envisioning the Future

229

(20)

4. The "Single Vision" of Scientism

Wolfgang Smith

"Progress" in Retrospect

249

(26)

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Spirituality and Science-Convergence or Divergence?

275

(12)

Titus Burckhardt

The Theory of Evolution

287

(14)

Theodore Roszak

Descartes'Angel: Reflections on the True Art of Thinking

301

(12)

Mary Midgley

Putting Nature in Her Place

313

(10)

Brian Cowan

Never Say Die...Without a Cause

323

(10)

5. The Destruction of Traditional Cultures

Thomas Yellowtail

Make Your Choice

333

(12)

Anagarika Govinda

The Fate of Tibet

345

(4)

James Cowan

Towards a New Dreaming

349

Philip Sherrard

Epilogue

359

(6)

Acknowledgments

365

(4)

Contributors

369

(6)

Biographical Note

375

(2)

Index

377

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