Oxford University Press

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The Carmodys provide an accessible overview and evaluation of Buddhist thought and practice, from a Christian point of view, focusing on Buddhist ideas of holiness and how they compare to similar values in Christianity....

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In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a        field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the        NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization.          In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B. DuBois would mingle with...