Huston Smith Audio & Video

Dr. Huston Smith discusses their origin, founders and what each teaches as to life’s meaning and the way to its fulfillment.

Renowned world religions scholar Huston Smith (The Religions of Man) travels to Tibet in Requiem for a Faith to provide moving commentary that accompanies filmmaker Elda Hartley's remarkable images of this profoundly mystical culture.

All of the world's great religions are practiced in India. It was in India that Buddha achieved enlightenment; it is in India that belief in reincarnation originated.

In this streaming video interview, MeaningOfLife.tv host Robert Wright interviews world religions scholar Huston Smith (author of the bestselling classic The World's Religions).

In this great pairing between two spiritual thinkers in 1968, Huston Smith interviews Jiddu Krishnamurti on the question of how to live more lucidly in a world that seems determined to stifle inner clarity.

Rev. Smith talked about his book The Illustrated World's Religions and how various forms of religion view the forces of good and evil. Although the book was published forty years ago, it is still widely used as a college text.

ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: THE SUFI WAY is shot in magnificent Islamic architectural settings from Morocco to Turkey to India, Islamic Mysticism: The Sufi Way provides a window into the rigorous Sufi schedule of prayer, fasting and study.

In this series, the inquiry turns from descriptive to normative values, from the 'is' to the 'ought'.

Religious scholar Huston Smith was the author of the popular comparative religions book The World's Religions. He joined Terry Gross on Fresh Air in 1996 to discuss various religions and the impact that they had on his life.

The life of Huston Smith reads like an adventure novel....