Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) - Culled from a series of lectures pre. That any article of religious faith that provides inspiration and emotional satisfac. Again, then, to the old and last resort of certitude,- namely the common assent of mankind, or of the competent by instruction and training among mankind.”5. The Religious Experience of Mankind by Ninian Smart, The. Bhagavad Gītā by Eliot Deutsch (review). Russell Naughton. The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, Volume 33, Number 4, October. 783-786 (Review). Published by The Catholic University of America Press. DOI: For additional information about.

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This large volume undertakes a comprehensive account of the most important religions that have arisen in human history. The external forms and the inner meanings of a religion must be fused, the author believes, if that religion is to be understood fully.

The aim here, therefore, is to present the facts about each religion in relation to the experiences of men which that religion attempts to express. The approach is descriptive rather than evaluative. Four dimensions of religion are taken as normative; ritual, myth, doctrine, and society. These are seen in dialectic relation to actual experience. From this point of view, each of the major religions is examined from its earliest pre-historic through its historic forms. The author raises the question whether Marxism and Humanism should be called religions, but concludes that, in spite of the way in which they serve a religious function, they are basically anti-religious. The book has a comprehensive sweep, and the development is supported by a wide use of the various religious literatures.

It should serve as a useful resource for both professional scholars and lay readers.

Bio Ninian Smart was born in Cambridge England in 1927. Smart attended the Glasgow Academy before joining the military in 1945 serving until 1948 in the British Army Intelligence Corps. Leaving the army as a Captain with a scholarship to Queen’s College University of Oxford he reverted to his Glasgow major Classics and Philosophy. However for his B.Phil.

Work he returned to world religions writing what he came to consider the first dissertation in Oxford on philosophy of religion after World War II. After teaching in the University of Wales from 1952 to 1955 he was a visiting lecturer at Yale University.

In 1956 he was appointed Lecturer in the University of London then in 1961 he became the first H. Wood Professor of Theology at Birmingham—one of the largest departments of theology where he also served as head of the department. In 1967 he established the first department of Religious Studies in the United Kingdom at the new University of Lancaster where he was also Pro-Vice Chancellor. In 1976 he became the first J. Rowny Professor in the Comparative Study of Religions at University of California at Santa Barbara California. He was also visiting professor at Varanasi in India Wisconsin Princeton Queensland and the respected Religious Studies department at Lampeter in Hong Kong and elsewhere.

Lectures delivered in Delhi were published as The Yogi and the Devotee (1968). In 1996 he was named the Academic Senate’s Research Professor the highest professorial rank at Santa Barbara. In 2000 he was elected President of the American Academy of Religion while simultaneously retaining his status as President of the Inter Religious Federation for World Peace. Smart held both titles at the time of his passing in 2001.