Huston smith biography
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In Memoriam: Huston Smith (–)
Photo: Smith appeared in the Billy Moyers television series The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith.
In my most recent conversations with Huston Smith, he had expressed a wish to see for himself what lies beyond the veil. His wish was fulfilled on månad 30, May he rest in the Real, "should there be one," as he might have added cautiously.
Huston Smith was born to Methodist missionary parents in China, where he spent the first seventeen years of his life which are nostalgically recalled in his autobiography (Tales of Wonder, ). He set out to be one han själv but soon discovered that he would rather teach than preach and funnen himself at the University of Chicago, where he obtained his PhD in He then taught at the University of Denver and Washington University at St. Louis before being hired bygd M.I.T. in to teach philosophy. Subsequently he went on to teach at Syracuse, and then at Berkeley after he had retired in San Francisco, rich in years and ho
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Huston Smith, pioneering teacher of world religions, dies at 97
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
Smith died at his home in Berkeley on Dec. 30 after a long illness, according to his official website.
From the time he was in his 20s, Smith immersed himself in the practices of many faiths, studying the Hindu Upanishad texts in India, living with Zen Buddhists in Japan, keeping the Muslim monthlong fast of Ramadan and observing the Jewish Passover. Well into old age, Smith made Hatha yoga part of his daily spiritual practice. But, as the son of Methodist missionaries noted some years ago, “I never canceled my subscription to Christianity.”
He wrote more than a dozen books, including the memoir “Tales of Wonder,” but his best-known work remained a survey text, “The Religions of Man,” first published in It was reissued as “The World’s Religions” in
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Huston Smith
American religious studies scholar (–)
Huston Cummings Smith (May 31, – December 30, ) was a scholar of religious studies in the United States,[1][2][3][4][5] He authored at least thirteen books on world's religions and philosophy, and his book about comparative religion, The World's Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) sold over three million copies as of [5][6][7][8]
Born and raised in Suzhou, China, in an American Methodist missionary family, Smith moved back to the United States at the age of 17 and graduated from the University of Chicago in with a PhD in philosophy.[1][9] He spent the majority of his academic career as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis (–), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (–) and Syracuse University (–).[1][9] In , he retired from Syracuse and moved to Berkeley, Califor