Contributors Huston Smith 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 fourteen 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. Henry Rosemont Jr. is George B. and Wilma Reeves Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts, Emeritus, at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Senior Consulting Professor at Fudan University in China, and, currently, visiting professor of religious studies at Brown University. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Washington (1967) and pursued postdoctoral studies in linguistics at M.I.T. (1967–71). He is the author of A Chinese Mirror (1991), Rationality and Religious Experience (2001), has edited and/or translated seven other books, and has contributed over sixty articles and reviews to anthologies and scholarly journals. Wilson Van Dusen (1922–2005) wrote widely on the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg and on visionary experience in general. Among his books are Beauty, Wonder and the Mystical Mind; Design of Existence: Emanation from Source to Creation; Returning to the Source; and The Presence of Other Worlds: The Psychological/Spiritual Findings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs lectures and leads workshops worldwide in his capacity as executive director of United Religions Initiative, an international organization of independent multi-faith associations devoted to peace, justice and healing. He is an Episcopal priest associated with the Diocese of San Francisco. His essay “Opening the Dream: Beyond the Limits of Otherness” has recently been published as part of the Fetzer Institute’s series Deepening the American Dream. He coauthored, with coworker Sally Mahe, Birth of a Global Community (2004), a book on the birth of the United Religions Initiative, and has published many articles on interfaith work. Rev. Gibbs received his B.A. in theater arts from Pomona College, an M.A. in writing from the University of Minnesota and an M.Div. and a D.D., honoris causa, from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. ,
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