Additional biographical source: Ninian Smart. "Methods in My Life." Pp. 18-35 in "The Craft of Religious Studies", edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Wikipedia
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From 1976 to 1982 Smart divided his time between Lancaster and the religion department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1986 to his retirement in 1998 he was the J. F. Rowny Professor in the Comparative Study of Religion at the latter www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/religstudies/general/smart.htm
Professor Ninian Smart , the pioneer of religious studies at Lancaster and founding head of department, died at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary on 29 January 2001. He leaves a widow, Libushka, and three children, a fourth having died in childhood. ... N domino.lancs.ac.uk/info/lunews.nsf/I/1DFBA93D45CF9A6E8025...
