Ninian Smart
Roderick Ninian Smart (6 May 1927 – 29 January 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. He is best known for his seven-dimensional definition of religion.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, having already chaired one of the largest and most prestigious departments of theology in Britain at the University of Birmingham. In 1976, he became the first J.F. Rowny Professor in the Comparative Study of Religions at University of California, Santa Barbara. Smart presented the Gifford Lectures in 1979–80. In 1996, he was named the Academic Senate's research professor, the highest professorial rank at UC 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 death.
Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain, when he was editorial consultant for the major BBC television series, ''The Long Search'' (1977). His book ''The World's Religions'' (1989) also reached a considerable popular readership. His defence of religious studies as a secular discipline helped the formation of departments in many public universities, especially in the United States. He distanced religious studies from traditional theology in that evaluating truth claims and apology have no role but regarded investigation into the "truth and worth" of religion ''per se'' as a valid academic enterprise in the public arena of state-funded education. Provided by Wikipedia
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World religions: a dialogue. by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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The religious experience of mankind by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
New York : Scribner, 1984
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The philosophy of religion. by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
New York : Random House, 1970
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Beyond ideology, religion and the future of Western civilization by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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The world's religions : old traditions and modern transformations by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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Worldviews : crosscultural explorations of human beliefs by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2000
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Philosophers and religious truth. by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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A dialogue of religions by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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Concept and empathy : essays in the study of religion by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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Buddhism and Christianity : rivals and allies by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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Philosophers and religious truth. by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
New York] Macmillan 1970
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The religious experience by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1996
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Christian systematic theology in a world context by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 1991
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The phenomenon of religion by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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The concept of worship. by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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Choosing a faith by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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Reasons and faiths : an investigation of religious discourse, christian and non-christian by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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Lights of the world : Buddha and Christ by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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Reasons and faiths : an investigations of religious discourse, Christian and non-Christian by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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The religious experience of mankind by Smart, Ninian, 1927-2001
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