Huston Smith

Originally published as The Religions of Man in 1958 and revised after another 30 years of study to incorporate the use of inclusive language and some vital new dimensions, this book was almost everyone’s first introduction to the grand feast of spiritual diversity served around the world.

Author of The World’s Religions and one of the leading religious historians of our time, Huston Smith was also present at the inception of the 20^th century’s most famous experiments linking psychedelic drugs with the expansion of divine experience (in the years 1960–1964 at Harvard, in Boston).

This classic companion to The World's Religions articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditions

This classic companion to The World's Religions articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditions.

Retaining the focus of Huston Smith’s classic The World’s Religions, this richly illustrated presentation, with text refined to its essentials, gives a beautiful new dimension to Smith’s appreciation of the world’s religious traditions, including primal religions.