Huston smith biography
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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 tro, 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
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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 han själv what lies beyond the veil. His wish was fulfilled on December 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 found 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 by 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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