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2007 Marks the Start of the New Beginning for Studies:
2007 marks the start of the 26th year for Studies in Comparative Religion, which is now located in Bloomington, Indiana and sponsored by World Wisdom. The overall goals of the journal remain as they were originally stated more than forty years ago by F. Clive-Ross. This second phase includes both an on-line and a paper journal.
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Clive-Ross, F.
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Cooper, J.C.
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Hultkrantz, Ake
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Northbourne, Lord
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Seneviratne , Maureen
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Almquist, Kurt
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Corbin, Henry
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Kelly, Bernard
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Pallis, Marco
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Sherrard, Phillip
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Bando, Shojun
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Gelfand, Michael
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le Gai Eaton, Charles
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Raine, Kathleen
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Siraj ad-Din, Abu Bakr
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Bolton, R.
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Godwin, Joscelyn
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Lings, Martin
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Schaya, Leo
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Stoddart, William
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Brown, Joseph Epes
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Griffiths, Bede
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Macnab, Angus
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Schimmel, Annemarie
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Talbott, Harold
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Burckhardt, Titus
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Guénon, René
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Michon, Jean-Louis
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Scholem, Gershom G.
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Vâlsan, Michel
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.
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Hani, Jean
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Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
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Schuon, Frithjof
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Zolla, Elemire
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Coomaraswamy, Rama P.
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F. Clive-Ross. Francis Clive-Ross (1921-1981) was the founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of Studies in Comparative Religion, the earliest and most influential English-language journal of traditional studies. Studies in Comparative Religion was founded in Britain in 1963 and published under the name Tomorrow until 1967, when it was changed to its present name. Four quarterly issues per year, containing over 1,200 articles in total, were published during the first 25 years of Studies in Comparative Religion’s existence, before its publication was interrupted in 1987.
Clive-Ross was also a Trustee of the World of Islam Festival held in London in 1976 and penned a number of editorials and articles.
During its first 25 years, the journal had its offices in a wing of the Clive-Ross home in Pates Manor, Bedfont, which dates its origins to the 15th century. Charles le Gai Eaton wrote about Clive-Ross’s dedication to Studies in Comparative Religion:
It was because he himself believed that such ideas are the most real things in the world that Clive-Ross found the strength to struggle against difficulties (not least those of funding) which might have seemed insuperable to a lesser man. It was his deep conviction that the beliefs, the spiritual “point of view”, expressed in the pages of Studies represented a truth for which the world is hungry that enabled him to fulfill his task up to the end of his life. In this he was single-minded and showed a toughness which contrasted with his amiable and easygoing nature.
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Swedish philosopher and author; editor and translator of Tidlos Besinnung i besinninglos Tid -- ur Frithjof Schuons Werk, Kurt Almquist was also a professor and an accomplished poet. He taught Romanic Languages including Spanish, Latin, French, Catalonian and Provencal. In addition to writing many poems in Swedish, he published an anthology of quotations by Frithjof Schuon and René Guénon in Swedish.
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Shojun Bando (1932- 2004) was a Japanese scholar, author, editor, and priest who was influential in disseminating information to the West on Shin Buddhism. Western readers may have read some of his correspondence with Thomas Merton. He also once made a personal visit to Frithjof Schuon.
Shojun Bando was also a revered Shin Buddhist priest and Professor of Buddhism at Otani University in Kyoto, Japan. |
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Robert Bolton was educated in the sciences, and developed a strong interest in Traditional metaphysics, obtaining from Exeter University the degrees of M.Phil and Ph.D, with a special interest in the areas of free will, and personal identity and the soul. He is the author of three books, The Order of the Ages: World History in the Light of a Universal Cosmogony; Person, Soul and Identity; and The Logic of Spiritual Values. |
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The late Joseph Epes Brown was a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Montana. A renowned author in the fields of American Indian traditions and World Religions, Brown was one of the founders of Native American Studies and was largely responsible for bringing the study of these religious traditions into American higher education. His publications include The Sacred Pipe (1953), his famous recounting of the sacred rites of the Oglala Sioux, Animals of the Soul (1992), The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian (1982) and Teaching Spirits (2001).
Brown received his undergraduate degree at Haverford College, an M.A. from Stanford University and the Ph.D. in Anthropology and History of Religions from the University of Stockholm. His vital interest in the traditional beliefs and values of the American Indian led him to the old Sioux Black Elk, with whom he lived for a year while recording the account of the seven rites of the Oglala Sioux. Black Elk himself requested that the book The Sacred Pipe be written so that the sacred beliefs of his people could be preserved and better understood by both Indians and non-Indians.
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Titus Burckhardt, a German Swiss, was born in Florence in 1908 and died in Lausanne in 1984. He devoted all his life to the study and exposition of the different aspects of Wisdom and Tradition.
In the age of modern science and technocracy, Burckhardt was one of the most remarkable exponents of universal truth, in the realm of metaphysics as well as in the realm of cosmology and of traditional art. In a world of existentialism, psychoanalysis, and sociology, he was a major voice of the philosophia perennis, that "wisdom uncreate" that is expressed in Platonism, Vedanta, Sufism, Taoism, and other authentic esoteric or sapiential teachings.
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Dr. Rama P. Coomaraswamy (1929-2006), son of the renowned perennialist writer Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, was in his own right an important writer on traditionalist topics, especially regarding Christianity and the influx of modernistic ideas and practices in this ancient apostolic tradition.
Rama P. Coomaraswamy received his early education in India in an orthodox Hindu setting. He then spent several years in America, Canada and England where he obtained his Oxford Matriculation. Graduating from Harvard University with a major in Geology, he went on to medical school, graduating in 1959. He spent 30 years as a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon, holding the position of Assistant Professor of Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, as well as Chief of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Stamford Hospital.
Although raised in the Hindu tradition, after the death of his father, Rama would convert to Catholicism. He was a firm traditionalist and an ardent student of Church history and theology. For five years in his later life he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the St. Thomas Aquinas (Lefebrist) Seminary. He also always maintained his interest in traditionalist metaphysics and in traditional art.
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Jean C. Cooper was born in China where she spent much of her childhood. Informed by the perspective of the Perennial Philosophy, she wrote and lectured extensively on the subjects of philosophy, comparative religion, and symbolism. She was the author of lucid introductory works on Chinese religion such as Taoism, the Way of the Mystic (1972), Yin and Yang (1981), and Chinese Alchemy (1984). In addition, she wrote several works in the field of symbolism, including Fairy Tales: Allegories of the Inner Life (1983), Symbolism, the Universal Language (1986), Symbolic and Mythological Animals (1992), and the broad ranging classic in its field, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols (1978). |
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Henry Corbin (14 April 1903 - October 7, 1978) was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Corbin was one of the 20th century’s most remarkable and significant religious thinkers. His vision of the fundamental unity of the three great monotheisms, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is of profound importance for our understanding of the history and destiny of the Western tradition. His work provides an ecumenical and cross-cultural perspective which is unique in its scope, power and visionary penetration.
His works include Avicenna and the Visionary Recital, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi and Spiritual Body & Celestial Earth.
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Michael Gelfand (1912-1985) was a physician, teacher, university administrator, editor, and author.
Dr. Gelfand, was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and worked there, in England, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as a physician. He co-founded the Central African Journal of Medicine in 1955, and continued to co-edit it for many years.
The Order of the Knighthood of Saint Sylvester was conferred upon him by the pope in 1977, a very unusual honor for a devout Jew.
Dr. Gelfand wrote many articles and books on medical topics (his book Tropical Medicine was the accepted authority in this field at one time), but also about the Shona people of Zimbabwe. |
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Dr. Joscelyn Godwin was born in England and received a B.A. degree and M.A. in Music there. He came to the U.S. in 1966 and received a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1969. Godwin
taught at Cleveland State University for two years and then began a career with the Music Department at Colgate University, where he has been since 1971. Dr. Godwin has written a great deal on music, literature, and Western esoteric traditions, including Hermeticism and alchemy. He has also translated a number of books, though perennialist readers may be most familiar with his translation of Guénon's The Multiple States of Being. Dr. Godwin contributed two essays to this journal.
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Alan Richard "Bede" Griffiths (17 December 1906 – 13 May 1993), also known as Swami Dayananda (Bliss of Compassion), was a British-born Benedictine monk and mystic who lived in ashrams in South India. He was born at Walton-on-Thames, England and studied literature at Oxford University under C. S. Lewis, who became a lifelong friend.
In December, 1932, Griffiths joined the Benedictine monastery of Prinknash Abbey near Gloucester, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1940. In 1958 he helped establish Kurisumala Ashram (Mountain of the Cross) in India, a Syriac rite monastery in Kerala. In 1968 he moved to Shantivanam (Forest of Peace) Ashram in Tamil Nadu. Griffiths wrote twelve books on Hindu-Christian dialogue. Griffiths' form of Vedanta-inspired Christianity is called Wisdom Christianity.
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René Guénon (1886-1951) was a writer of extraordinary power and insight—in the early decades of the 20th century, it was Guénon who reintroduced the importance and necessity of integral metaphysics to thinkers in the West, and who delivered scathing indictments of the pomp and hollowness of much of modernism. Traditionalists and Perennialists everywhere tend to view Guénon's writings as having had a profound and critical influence on their thinking.
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Jean Hani is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Amiens in France, where he has specialized in Greek literature and philosophy. He has written several books including Le Symbolisme du temple chrétien, Mythes, rites et symbols: Les Chemins de l'invisible and La Vierge noire et le mystère marial.
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Dr. Âke Hultkrantz was recognized as a major authority on Native American religions and shamanism. He was a professor of religion at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. During the years 1948 and 1958, Professor Hultrkrantz conducted field work at the Wind River reservation, which resulted in his ground-breaking book, Native American Religions of North America: The Power of Visions and Fertility. His other works include The Religions of the American Indians, Shamanic Healing & Ritual Drama: Health & Medicine in the Native North American Religious Traditions, and Belief and Worship in Native America.
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Born in 1921, Bernard Kelly, an English Catholic Traditionalist author and thinker, contributed to Religion of the Heart, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and William Stoddart. He also wrote Lay Spirituality: Its Theory and Practice and An Introduction to Moral Theology: Fundamental Concepts in Their Christian Perspective. |
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Charles le Gai Eaton was born in Lausanne, Switzerland of British parents in 1921. He was educated at Charterhouse and Kings College, Cambridge. After wartime service in the British Intelligence Corps, his professional life has included diplomatic service, teaching and journalism and has taken him to four continents. On the one hand, his essays challenge many of the operating principles of modern—and thus secular—societies. They do so by contrasting prevalent ideas about human nature with the traditional view of man as pontifex or “God’s viceroy on earth.” Writing on religion, philosophy, politics and society, Eaton maintains that people are always free inwardly to shape their ultimate destinies. He currently works as a consultant to the Islamic Cultural Center in London. |
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Martin Lings was an author, editor, translator, and specialist in Islamic art and esoterism. From 1970-74 he was Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books at the British Museum (in 1973 his Department became part of the British Library) where he had been in special charge of the Qur’an manuscripts, amongst other treasures, since 1955. His authoritative biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, has become a classic and is widely read in both East and West as an unbiased, clear, and profound source on the prophet of Islam.
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Angus Macnab was born in London of New Zealand-Scots parents. He received a classical education at the ancient "Public School" of Rugby and at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was a gifted translator of Latin and Greek poetry, but as a profession he chose teaching. Mr. Macnab’s interest in Spain began in 1936, and after the Second World War, in which he served as a volunteer ambulance driver, he learned Spanish and decided to make Spain his home. In 1938, under the influence of G.K Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, Angus Macnab embraced neo-scholasticism and traditional Catholicism. For some this could have been an intellectual straitjacket, but in conjunction with his classical roots and his later oriental studies, it provided Macnab with a fine philosophical tool for a subtle examination of the two traditional cultures (Christian and Islamic) of Medieval Spain. The fruits of his investigation in this field were his books Spain under the Crescent Moon and Toledo, Sacred and Profane. |
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Jean-Louis Michon is a traditionalist French scholar who specializes in Islam in North Africa, Islamic art, and Sufism. His works include Le Soufi marrocain Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba and L'Autobiographie (Fahrasa) du Soufi marrocain Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba (1747-1809). For 8 years he was the Chief Technical Advisor to the Moroccan government on Unesco/UNDP projects for the preservation of the cultural heritage. Dr. Michon coordinated the rehabilitation of traditional handicrafts that were seriously threatened by industrialization and other factors. To preserve Morocco's monuments, sites, museum collections, living folk arts and traditions, he set up an inventorization and classification of the assets of its cultural heritage. Furthermore, he was instrumental in preserving and restoring the ancient casbahs (castles) of Morocco in a project designed to safeguard the ancient city of Fez.
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Marco Pallis (1895-1990) was born of Greek parents in Liverpool, England, educated at Harrow and Liverpool University, and served in the British army during the World War I. He wrote two books deriving from his experiences traveling in the Eastern Himalaya region and with Tibetan Buddhism: Peaks and Lamas (1939) which was reprinted several times and became something of a bestseller, and The Way and the Mountain (1960). Pallis also wrote many articles for Studies in Comparative Religion, some of which are included in his last publication, A Buddhist Spectrum.
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Kathleen Raine was an internationally recognized English poet and Blake scholar. She was one of the founders of the Temenos Academy, an organization that advocates the primacy of the Imagination and which promulgates a traditional view of the arts and crafts in Britain. In addition to her many seminal works on the Romantic poet William Blake (such as Blake and Antiquity, 1979; Golgonooza, City of the Imagination: Last Studies in William Blake, 1991; Blake and Tradition, 2002), other of her more representative publications include Defending Ancient Springs (1985) and Yeats the Initiate (1986).
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