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The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy. World Wisdom. 2007. c.368p, ed. by Martin Lings & Clinton Minnaar. index. ISBN 978-1-933316-43-7. $24.95. REL
Perennialist/traditionalist thought strives for a unity that transcends each individual religion and its unique doctrines. This look at primordial religion edited by the late Lings (Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources) and Minnaar, a professional editor in the field of religious studies, is an anthology of 25 essays of the leading 14 exponents of sophia perennis: Frithjof Schuon, Rene Guenon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Titus Burckhardt, to name a few (there are biographical notes …