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Also known as Huston Cummings Smith

religious studies scholar (1919-2016)

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Works
93

Top works

  • Wasson's Soma
  • Do drugs have religious import?
  • The Three Pillars of Zen Teaching/ Practice/ Enlightenment
  • Portrait of a Radical
  • And Live Rejoicing

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1969-08-06
Active to
2003-10-21

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Huston Cummings Smith (born May 31, 1919) is among the preeminent religious studies scholars in the United States. His work, The Religions of Man (later revised and retitled The World's Religions), is a classic in the field, sold over two million copies, and is a particularly useful introduction to comparative religion. He has released many of his works on audio for your listening enjoyment. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Huston+Smith">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • When I read the Upanishads, I found a profundity of world view that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
  • The sheer immensity of the human self as envisioned by the world's religions is awesome.
  • In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.
  • [...] if we were to find ourselves with a single religion tomorrow, it is likely that there would be two the day after.
  • Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.
  • Mystics of every faith report contacts with a world that startles and transforms them with its dazzling darkness. Zen stands squarely in this camp, its only uniqueness being that it makes breaking the language barrier its central concern.

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