2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Huston Smith's 1976 argument for the perennial philosophy — that the world's major religious traditions (Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Indigenous) share a common metaphysical structure of hierarchically ordered levels of being (terrestrial, intermediate, celestial, infinite) that modern reductionist science has displaced.
American scholar of comparative religion who wrote The World's Religions — the most widely used world religions textbook in the United States — and Forgotten Truth — arguing for the perennial philosophy's account of a common metaphysical hierarchy underlying all the world's major religious traditions.