Reviews for Blessed Are the Chickenhearted: And 99 Other Beatitudes for Everyday Living

The average rating for Blessed Are the Chickenhearted: And 99 Other Beatitudes for Everyday Living based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-08-24 00:00:00 Louis Obrien A personal take on Dumont, which centres on his work on hierarchy and individualism. Strenski spends quite a lot of time explaining the 'transgressiveness' of Dumont's approach. Accused of promoting social inequality, Strenski aims to show that this is a misreading of Dumont's attempt to show how our individualistic ideas 'colonise' the understanding of other cultures. Interesting read, if not quite your average textbook introduction.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-02-21 00:00:00 Jonah Chavez This is probably the most helpful collection of Smith's essays. He provides an autobiographical intro charting his interests and research questions over the course of his career, and many of the treatment provided here are indicative of some of his major works. So, if you want to know how Smith understands his own argument in "To Take Place" or his obsession with the dictum "Map is not Territory," this is the place to start. There is a lot of repetition in this collection; he occasionally uses the same few paragraphs at the same points in his argument... but overall the collected essays are helpful, coherent, and provide interesting forays into history of religions, comparative methodology, and Smith's own distinctive approach.