Jacob Needleman, educated at Harvard, Yale and Freiburg, Germany, is professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and former director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He has written over 30 books as of 2009. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) This book was a gift.  Read more

Predrag Cicovacki is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Peace Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worchester, MA. He is author of ‘Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life‘ and ‘Between Truth and Illusion: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity.’ He wrote the Introduction and summaries of the 16 Schweitzer Essays in this book.  Read more

Huston Smith is a former Professor of Religion at MIT and at Syracuse University. His many books include Why Religion Matters (book 1), winner of the Wilbur Award for excellence in communication of religious issues. This was a gift book by a friend who also gave me book 381. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.)  Read more

William Chittick, Professor of Religious Studies at Stony Brook University, is the author of 27 books on Islamic thought and Sufism. Books 372-376 are from the PARABOLA Anthology Series, for which Ravi Ravindra is the series editor.  Read more

Editor Philip Novak is the Sarlo Distinguished Professor of Religion at Dominican University of California, San Rafael, where he has taught for 25 years. He is a long-time practioner of Vipassana Buddhism. Books 372-376 are from the PARABOLA Anthology Series.  Read more