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38: 97:. In 1955, the producers at KECT, the local NET (precursor of PBS) affiliate, were looking for original content for the newly launched national network. Upon asking the local university what the most popular class was, they were told it was Huston Smith's class. That series was the first TV show to offer college credit. 189:
The success of the TV series led to Smith writing a book that became the standard textbook for college and university classes on world religions. The book has ten chapters, with an introduction and subsequent chapters covering
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scholar Huston Smith. The book was first published in 1958 and has since been translated into twelve languages. It became "one of the most widely used college textbooks on
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Reinders, E., & Sawyer, D. (2016). . Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 20(1), 132–133.
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The success of the series led to the development of a book titled
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Index

The Religion of Man
World religions (disambiguation)

Huston Smith
Religion
Huston Smith
Washington University in St. Louis
religious studies
comparative religion
Hinduism
Buddhism
Confucianism
Daoism
Islam
Judaism
Christianity
Australian Aboriginal beliefs
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26417812
"The World of Religion According to Huston Smith" at MotherJones.com
ISBN
978-1891785-290
"The Religions of Man"
"The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions"
Huston Smith official website
Archive of The Religions of Man TV Series
Categories
Books about religion
1958 non-fiction books

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