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Huston Smith (1919-2016) was a US professor and author of The World's Religions, a best-selling book on comparative religion. He studied various traditions, including Vedanta, Zen, Sufism, and Tibetan Buddhism, and participated in psychedelic experiments at MIT.
Jan 1, 2017 · Huston Smith, a renowned scholar of religion who pursued his own enlightenment in Methodist churches, Zen monasteries and even Timothy Leary’s living room, died on Friday at his home in...
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Smith taught at the University of Denver from 1944 to 1947; then at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, for the next ten years. He was then appointed professor and chair of the philosophy department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1958 to 1973. While there, he participated in experiments with psychedelics that prof...
While at Washington University, Smith was the host of two National Educational Television series (NET – the forerunner of PBS): The Religions of Man and Search for America. In 1996, Bill Moyers devoted a five-part PBS special to Smith's life and work, The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith. Smith produced three series for public television: The Reli...
In 1964, during a trip to India, Smith stayed in a Gyuto Tibetan Buddhist monastery. During his visit he heard the monks chanting and realized that each individual was producing a chord, composed of a fundamental note and overtones. He returned to record the chanting in 1967 and asked acoustic engineers at MIT analyze the sound. They confirmed the ...
Smith is best known for his introduction to the world's religions, already a standard college textbook in its first incarnation as The Religions of Man (1958) and then revised, expanded, and retitled The World's Religions in 1991. This book has been called "the most important book in comparative religious studies ever," and led to Smith being consi...
"If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race."" Religion is institutionalized spirituality. ... Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but un..."The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits."The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions. 1991. 50th Anniversary edition, HarperOne, 2009. ISBN 978-0061660184 (revised and expanded version of The Religions of Man. 1958.)Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions. 1976. Reprint, HarperOne, 1992. ISBN 978-0062507877Beyond the Postmodern Mind. 1982. Third edition, Quest Books, 2003. ISBN 978-0835608305The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions. 1991. HarperOne, 1995. ISBN 978-0060674403Lattin, Don. The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America. HarperOne, 2011. ISBN 978-0061655944Marquard, Bryan. Huston Smith, 97, author and explorer of faiths The Boston Globe, January 19, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2017.Sawyer, Dana. Huston Smith: Wisdomkeeper. Fons Vitae, 2014. ISBN 978-1891785290Wilson, Andrew (ed.). World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1998. ISBN 978-1557787231All links retrieved January 20, 2018. 1. Huston Smith official website 2. Huston Smithat the Internet Movie Database 3. Huston Smith article for CDSPHuston Smith and Brandon Williamscraig.
Huston Smith was a religious studies scholar and author of The World's Religions. He studied and practiced various faiths, participated in psychedelic experiments, and advocated for Native American religious freedom.
Jan 5, 2017 · Huston Smith, a pioneering teacher of world religions whose knowledge and respect for the traditions of the major faiths attracted millions of readers, has died. He was 97. Smith died at his...
Jan 4, 2017 · Huston Smith became a Methodist minister with the intention of becoming a missionary like his parents. But instead of spreading his religion around the world, he found his true calling by...
Jan 1, 2017 · Huston Smith, a renowned scholar of religion who pursued his own enlightenment in Methodist churches, Zen monasteries and even Timothy Leary’s living room, died on Friday at his home in Berkeley, Calif.
Watch Huston Smith's pioneering NET series on world religions, interviews with mid-century icons, and lectures on science and human responsibility. Learn about the life and legacy of the leading scholar of the world's religions.
