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Ninian Smart

Scottish writer and university educator

Roderick Ninian Smart (6 May 1927 – 29 January 2001)^[1][2] was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. He is best known for his seven-dimensional definition of religion.

In 1967 he established the first department of religious studies in the United Kingdom at the new University of Lancaster where he was also Pro-Vice-Chancellor, having already chaired one of the largest and most prestigious departments of theology in Britain at the University of Birmingham. In 1976, he became the first J.F. Rowny Professor in the Comparative Study of Religions at University of California, Santa Barbara. Smart presented the Gifford Lectures in 1979–80. In 1996, he was named the Academic Senate's research professor, the highest professorial rank at UC Santa Barbara. In 2000, he was elected president of the American Academy of Religion, while simultaneously retaining his status as president of the Inter Religious Federation for World Peace. Smart held both titles at the time of his death.

Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain, when he was editorial consultant for the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977). H

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The Department of Religious studies was profoundly shocked and saddened by the news that our beloved colleague and professor Ninian Smart died suddenly in Lancaster, England on January 29, 2001. The unexpected news arrived only days after he bade farewell to his many friends here, having given up his Santa Barbara home in preparation for settling in England. He was 73 years old. He is survived by his dear wife, Lubushka, his son Roderick and daughters Luisabelle and Caroline, and their families, including eight grandchildren.

 

Born in Cambridge, England in 1927 to Scottish parents, Ninian was educated at Glasgow University and at Queen’s College, Oxford. Following positions at Yale University, London University, Banaras Hindu University and Birmingham University, he became the founding Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University in 1967. In 1976 he came to UCSB and spent part of each year at Lancaster University and UCSB until his retirement from Lancaster in 1982. He retired from UCSB in 1998 but remained a preeminent presence among as an emeritus professor. Richard Hecht recalled Ninian’s effect on his colleagues during his euology on February 5, 2001:

 

“I met Ninian in 1977 … and with his appointment our two universities w