ShareThisProfessor Huston Smith highlights the importance of balancing scholarship with practice in higher education at the 2009 Dharma Realm Buddhist University Commencement Exercises.
Huston Smith is one of the preeminent religious scholars in the world. He is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Syracuse University. For fifteen years, he was professor of philosophy at M.I.T. and for a decade before that he taught at Washington University in St. Louis. Most recently he has served as Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Holder of twelve honorary degrees, Smith's fifteen books include the best-selling The World’s Religions and, Why Religion Matters, which won the Wilbur Award for the best book on religion published in 2001. In 1996 Bill Moyers devoted a five-part PBS Special, The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith, to his life and work. His most recent book is an autobiography titled Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography [2010].