Ninian Smart

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Ninian Smart is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Nottingham, Lancaster University, University of Birmingham

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According to Wikipedia, Roderick Ninian Smart 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.

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Mysticism and Philosophy. (1963) (411)
The World's Religions (1989) (362)
The religious experience of mankind (1969) (262)
Dimensions of the sacred : an anatomy of the world's beliefs (1996) (206)
Secular education and the logic of religion (1968) (160)
Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs (1983) (129)
The Phenomenon of Religion (1973) (120)
The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge (1974) (90)
Myth, religion, and mother right (1967) (89)
Presuppositions of India's Philosophies. (1964) (72)
The world's religions : old traditions and modern transformations (1999) (68)
What is Comparative Religion (1986) (67)
Interpretation and Mystical Experience (1965) (58)
THE BEGINNINGS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY (1965) (39)
FERDINAND CHRISTIAN BAUR (1985) (37)
Dimensions of the Sacred (1996) (36)
Models and Mystery (1965) (35)
The Importance of Diasporas (1987) (31)
Doctrine and Argument in Indian Philosophy. (1967) (29)
Reasons And Faiths (1958) (28)
The Message of the Buddha (1974) (27)
The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge: Some Methodological Questions. (1975) (27)
Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West (1985) (26)
Philosophers and religious truth (1969) (25)
Sacred Texts of the World : A Universal Anthology (1982) (24)
Concept and Empathy: Essays in the Study of Religion (1986) (24)
Religion and the Western Mind (1987) (23)
Buddhism and Christianity: Rivals and Allies (1993) (23)
Reasons and Faiths An Investigation of Religious Discourse, Christian and Non-Christian (1971) (22)
The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge: Some Methodological Questions (1978) (22)
The concept of worship (1972) (19)
Beyond ideology: Religion and the future of Western civilization (1981) (18)
Religion, Myth and Nationalism (1986) (18)
New Movements in Religious Education (1975) (17)
Religion and politics in the modern world (1984) (17)
Atlas of the world's religions (1999) (16)
Buddhism and the Mythology of Evil (1962) (14)
The phenomenon of Christianity (1979) (14)
Talk of God (1969) (13)
The religious experience (1991) (13)
The Scientific Study of Religion in its Plurality (1984) (12)
Christian Systematic Theology in a World Context (1991) (12)
Historical selections in the philosophy of religion (1962) (11)
Probably (1962) (11)
The Logical Status of `God' (1973) (11)
The Philosophy of Worldviews: The Philosophy of Religion Transformed (1986) (11)
The Global Future of Religion (2006) (10)
Omnipotence, Evil and Supermen (1961) (10)
The philosophy of religion (1973) (9)
Our Experience of the Ultimate (1984) (9)
The Values of Religious Studies (1995) (8)
Ethical and Political Dilemmas of Modern India (1993) (8)
A Dialogue Of Religions (1981) (8)
The Christian and other religions (1962) (8)
God and the universe in the vedāntic theology of Ramanuja: a study in his use of the self-body analogy: Lott, E. J., Madras, India: Ramanuja Research Society, 1976, pp. 242. £2.85 (1977) (7)
Methods in My Life (2000) (7)
The TV ritual: Worship at the video altar: Gregor T. Goethals, Boston, Beacon Press 1981. ix + 164 pp. $11.95 (1982) (7)
The Exploration of Religion and Education. (1975) (7)
World religions : a dialogue (1966) (7)
The Long Search (1977) (7)
Religious studies in the United Kingdom (1988) (7)
Background to The long search (1977) (6)
What would Buddhaghosa have made of The Cloud of Unknowing? (1992) (1997) (6)
East-West Encounters in Philosophy and Religion (1996) (6)
A new look at religious studies: The Lancaster Idea (1967) (6)
Paradox in Religion (1959) (5)
The death of Al-Hallaj — a dramatic narrative: Herbert Mason, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press 1979. xxi + 81 pp. £6.30 (1980) (5)
Religions of Asia (1992) (5)
Reflections in the mirror of religion (1997) (5)
The Purification of Consciousness and the Negative Path (1984) (1997) (5)
The Analogy of Meaning and the Tasks of Comparative Philosophy (1988) (4)
Action and Suffering in the Theravadin Tradition (1984) (4)
The Intellectual Crisis of British Christianity (1965) (4)
Theravāda Buddhism and the definition of religion (1995) (4)
The Principles and Meaning of the Study of Religion (1986) (4)
The Yogi and the Devotee : The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology (1968) (4)
METHODS OF KNOWLEDGE ACCORDING TO ADVAITA VEDANTA (1966) (4)
The Concept of Heaven (1968) (4)
Models for Understanding the Relations between Religions (1993) (4)
V The Comparative Study of Religions and the Schools (1969) (3)
SENSE AND REFERENCE IN AESTHETICS—I (1963) (3)
The Future of the Academy (2001) (3)
Does the philosophy of religion rest on two mistakes? (1997) (3)
Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion (1991) (3)
Relationship and Solitude. (1966) (3)
A Contemplation of Absolutes (1993) (3)
Social anthropology and the philosophy of religion (1963) (3)
Methods and Disciplines in the Study of Religion (1986) (2)
Discontinuities and Continuities Between Mao Zedong Thought and the Traditional Religions of China (1990) (1997) (2)
Numen, Nirvana, and the Definition of Religion (1986) (2)
Concept And Empathy (1986) (2)
How to understand myth: A christian case (1974) (2)
Myth and Transcendence (1966) (2)
Response to Brian K. Smith: Re-envisioning Hinduism (1996) (2)
Eliade and the History of Religious Ideas (1980) (2)
Problems of the application of Western terminology to Theravada Buddhism, with special reference to the relationship between the Buddha and the gods (1972) (2)
Religious Contours of California: A Project of the California Council For the Humanities and the University of California at Santa Barbara (1986) (2)
RELIGION AS A DISCIPLINE (1962) (2)
Implicit Religion across Culture (2007) (2)
Book Review: Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of India (1963) (2)
The Philosophy of Worldviews — that is, the Philosophy of Religion Transformed (1981) (1)
The Powerful Dead (1982) (1)
Survey of World Religions (1967) (1)
Teaching Religion and Religions: The ‘World Religions’ Course (1991) (1997) (1)
Transitions and Transformations in the History of Religions. Essays in Honor of Joseph M. Kitagawa. Edited by Frank E. Reynolds and Theodore M. Ludwig. Pp. vi+285. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980. N.p. (1981) (1)
The Political Implications of Religious Studies (1987) (1)
Mystical experience (1962) (1)
Islam, secularism and the philosophy of the future: Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (Mansell Publishing Company, London, UK and New York, USA, 1985) (1986) (1)
Learning from Other Faiths II. Buddhism (1972) (1)
What is truth in RE (1970) (1)
On the Veneration of Forest Monks in Thai Buddhism (1986) (1)
What are the Dimensions of Belief in the Resurrection? (1967) (1)
Bibliography on Spirit Possession and Mediumship (1968) (1)
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND THE TRACTARIAN MOVEMENT (1985) (1)
The uniqueness of Christianity (1974) (1)
Continuities and Discontinuities between Mao Zedong Thought and the Traditional Religions of China (1993) (1)
DREY, MÖHLER AND THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL OF TÜBINGEN (1985) (1)
Revelation and Reasons (1958) (1)
Comparative religion clichés (1972) (1)
The Dynamics of Religious and Political Change: Illustrations from South Asia (1987) (1)
On declaring peace: another critical comment (1993) (1)
The Logos Doctrine and Eastern Beliefs (1967) (1)
Religion as a Phenomenon (1973) (1)
Karl Marx collective: Economy, society and religion in a Siberian collective farm: Caroline Humphrey, Cambridge, C.U.P., 1983, pp. xviii + 552 (1986) (1)
The future of religions (1985) (1)
Aspects of Religion: Essays in Honour of Ninian Smart (1995) (1)
The Role of the Intellectual in the Contemporary Church (1967) (1)
Source Book for the Study of Religions (1967) (1)
Asian Cultures and the Impact of the West: India and China (1982) (1997) (0)
Dr. Ninian Smart Engages with the Question: How Should a Student Approach the Study of Religion? (1999) (0)
Resurgence and Identity in Three Faiths (1987) (0)
The Anglican Contribution to the Dialogue of Religions (1967) (0)
Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West: Preface (1985) (0)
Dr. Ninian Smart Engages with the Question: Is it Possible to Prove the Existence of a Supreme Being? (1999) (0)
Doctrine and Agrument in Indian Philosophy (1966) (0)
Buddhism in the Context of Chinese Religion and Philosophy (1993) (0)
Book Reviews : Religious Ideas (1979) (0)
Meditation in the Two Traditions — Nirvana versus God (1993) (0)
Prophet of a New Hindu Age: The Life and Times of Acharya Pranavananda (1985) (0)
Book Review: Christian Faith and Other Faiths. By Stephen Neill. Oxford University Press. 1961. 21s.; Christian Encounter. By A. I. Boyd. St Andrew Press. 1961. 16s.; On the Eighthfold Path. By George Appleton. S.C.M. Press. 1961. 12s. 6d. (1961) (0)
II. The later Royge and the beloved community (1969) (0)
Book Review: The Problem of the Self in Buddhism and Christianity (1980) (0)
Dr. Ninian Smart Engages with the Question: Is There a Significant Outcome to the Study of Religion? (1999) (0)
John Bowker. The Meanings of Death. Pp. xii+243. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Price £16.95. (1993) (0)
Western Society and Buddhism (1989) (1997) (0)
The Best in the Literature of Philosophy and World Religions (1989) (0)
Religious Studies and the Western Mind (1987) (0)
Orthodoxy and nationality: Andreiu aguna and the Rumanians of Transylvania, 1846?1873 Keith Hitchins, Cambridge, Mass, and London, Harvard University Press, 1977, 332 pp. E14.70 (1978) (0)
Dr. Ninian Smart Engages with the Question: What is Your Biggest Concern Regarding the Study of Religion? (1999) (0)
Shamanism and Fatalism (1967) (0)
New Studies in the Philosophy of Religion.The Ontological Argument.The Argument from Design.Religious Experience.The Concept of Worship (1973) (0)
Book Review: A History of Religion East and West: An introduction and interpretation (1969) (0)
Our Experience of the Ultimate (1984) (1997) (0)
Dr. Ninian Smart Engages with the Question: Why Should People be Interested in Studying Religion? (1999) (0)
Book Reviews : Christ in Indian Thought (1971) (0)
Buddhism and Christianity: Complementarity? (1993) (0)
Phenomenology of religion: Dhavamony, Mariasusai, Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1973, pp. 385. 4,000 lire (1976) (0)
The Comparative Logical Analysis of Religious Doctrines (1986) (0)
Introducing the Study of Religion (1990) (1997) (0)
Living Liberation: Jivanmukti and Nirvana (1986) (0)
Objections to Humanism . By H. J. Blackham, Ronald Hepburn, Kingsley Martin and Kathleen Nott. Edited by H. J. Blackham. (London: Constable & Co. 1963. Price 16s.) (1965) (0)
Reflections on the Future of Religion (1989) (1997) (0)
P. J. Marshall(ed.): The British discovery of Hinduism in the eighteenth century . (The European Understanding of India.) x, 310 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. £5.60. (1971) (0)
I Recommend You to Read (1968) (0)
God, Bliss and Morality (1986) (0)
Buddhism, Christianity and Other Religions (1993) (0)
Joseph Neuner (ed.), Christian Revelation and World Religions. Pp. 186 (Burns and Oates, 1968). 15s. (1968) (0)
Diverse Worldviews in Today’s World (1993) (0)
Reflections on the Sources of Knowledge in the Indian Tradition (1989) (0)
Symposium: Paradox in Religion (1959) (0)
Concerning Subud . By J. G. Bennett. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, revised edition. 1958. Pp. 191. Price 12s. 6d.) (1960) (0)
Dr. Ninian Smart Engages with the Question: What Led You to the Study of Religion? (1999) (0)
Religions Of The World (1998) (0)
W. C. Smith and Complementarity (1992) (0)
Dr. Ninian Smart Engages with the Question: Who Most Influenced Your Approach to the Study of Religion? (1999) (0)
Identity and a Dynamic Phenomenology of Religion (1985) (1997) (0)
Contrasts and Comparisons between Buddhism and Christianity (1993) (0)
A Global Ethic Arising from the Epistemology of Religious and Similar Value-Systems (1987) (0)
Resolving the Tensions Between Religion and the Science of Religion (1973) (0)
Y. J. Padmarajiah: A comparative study of the Jaina theories of reality and knowledge , xvi, 423 pp., plate. Bombay: Jain Sahitya Vikas Mandal, 1963. Rs. 15, 20s. (1964) (0)
Transcendence in a Pluralistic Context (1997) (0)
The Intellectual Implications of Religious Studies (1987) (0)
Consciousness, Permanent or Fleeting? Reflections on Indian Views of Consciousness and Self (1989) (1997) (0)
The Pros and Cons of Thinking of Religion as Tradition (1991) (1997) (0)
Book Review:Christian Faith in a Religiously Plural World Donald C. Dawe, John B. Carman (1980) (0)
Revelation Through Reason. Errol E. Harris (1959) (0)
Review article (1985) (0)
Graduate Education: Some Practical Issues (1988) (1997) (0)
Mysticism and Scripture in Theravāda Buddhism (2000) (0)
Twentieth-Century Religious Thought . By John Macquarrie. S.C.M. Press, London, 1963. Pp. 391. 40s. (1964) (0)
Book Review: My Philosophical Development. By Bertrand Russell. Allen and Unwin. 18s; Individuals: an essay in descriptive metaphysics. By P. F. Strawson. Methuen. 25s; Critique of Religion and Philosophy. By Walter Kaufmann. Faber and Faber (1959) (0)
Foreword to Religion in Essence and Manifestation (1986) (1997) (0)
BookIslamic futures, the shape of ideas to come: Ziauddin Sardar 367 pp (Mansell Publishing Company, London, UK and New York, USA, 1985) (1986) (0)
Small-scale Traditional Religions (1982) (0)
Nationalism, Identity, and a More Secure World Order (1979) (0)
Dr. Ninian Smart Engages with the Question: How Do You Respond to the Opinion That All Religions are the Same? (1999) (0)
Reason and Faith in Modern Society: Liberalism, Marxism and Democracy . By Eduard Heimann. Oliver and Boyd, London, 1962. Pp. x + 342. 42s. (1963) (0)
Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West, Vol. I, II and III (1986) (0)
Hua-yen Buddhism and Modern Japanese Thought (1993) (0)
An Analysis of Hinduism in the Modern World (1986) (1997) (0)
Hindu patterns of liberation (1978) (0)
J. Gonda: Viṣṇuism and Śivaism: a comparison . (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, IX.) [vii], 228 pp. London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1970. £3.50. (1971) (0)
Benjamin Walker. Hindu World, An Encyclopedic Survey of Hinduism . 2 vols. (London: Allen & Unwin, 1968). Pp. 609 + 695. Price £10.10.0. (1969) (0)
Christianity and Nationalism (1987) (0)
Eight Propositions against the Prevailing Narrowness in Theology (1960) (0)
The Mythic Firmament (1973) (0)
SHLOMO BIDERMAN and BEN-AMI SCHARFSTEIN (Eds.), Interpretation in Religion (Philosophy and Religion. A Comparative Yearbook, vol. 2)—Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill 1992 (XI + 290 p.) ISBN 90 04 09519 5 (cloth) US$ 62.86. (1995) (0)
Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West: Contents (1985) (0)
6. Comparative Hermeneutics: An Epilogue about the Future (1973) (0)
Book Review: Philosophies and Cultures (1982) (0)
Religious Experience by Wayne Proudfoot (1988) (0)
India, Sri Lanka and Religion (1989) (1997) (0)
Religion and the Western Mind: Drummond Lectures delivered at the University of Stirling, Scotland, March 1985, and other essays (1987) (0)
Dr. Ninian Smart Engages with the Question: How Can God Exist With so Much Evil in the World? (1999) (0)
ISBN 0 06 067264Arvind Sharma, Editor, Our Religions, Harper, San Francisco (1993), p. xii+536 ISBN 0 06 0677007. (1995) (0)
Towards an Agreed Place for Religious Studies in Higher Education (1986) (0)
Precept and theory in Sri Lanka (1973) (0)
The Naturalistic Tradition in Indian Thought.The Concept of Mind in Indian Philosophy (1962) (0)
Myth in Indo-European antiquity: Larson, Gerald James (ed.), (co-edited by C. Scott Littleton and Jaan Puhvel), Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974, pp. 197. £5.00 (1976) (0)
Towards a Higher-Order Agreement on Worldviews: the Coming Victory of Pluralism (1993) (0)
Buddhism and Christianity (1993) (0)
The Intellectual Crisis of British Christianity (1965) (0)
Book ReviewsReview of To See the Buddha: A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness, by Malcolm David Eckel and The Last Priests in America: Conversations with Remarkable Men, by Tim Unsworth. (1994) (0)
Religious Belief. C. B. Martin (1960) (0)
Nirvana and Timelessness (1986) (0)
New Christian Interpretations: Science, Liberalism and Religion (1993) (0)
Is Hinduism an Offshoot of Buddhism? (2007) (0)

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