Dana Sawyer

Dana Sawyer
Dana Sawyer
Born(1951-07-04)July 4, 1951
Jonesport, Maine, United States
OccupationProfessor of Religion
Known forAuthor of Aldous Huxley: A Biography, author of the authorized biography Huston Smith: Wisdomkeeper: Living The World's Religions
SpouseStephani Briggs
Children(from previous marriage) Sophie Sawyer and Emma Sawyer

Dana Sawyer is professor emeritus of religious studies and world religions at the Maine College of Art & Design and an adjunct professor in Asian Religions at the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine.[1] He is the author of numerous published papers and books, including Aldous Huxley: A Biography,[2] which Laura Huxley described as, "Out of all the biographies written about Aldous, this is the only one he would have actually liked."

Huston Smith, Wisdomkeeper, Sawyer's authorized biography of world religion scholar Huston Smith, was published in 2014.[3][4][5]

Huxley and Smith were close friends and were leading advocates of the perennial philosophy, which describes an underlying reality to material existence. Huxley's 1945 book, The Perennial Philosophy, argues that the concept is revealed in the mystical branches of all the world's religions. Sawyer's updated account of the perennial philosophy, The Perennial Philosophy Reloaded will be published in July, 2024.[6]

  1. ^ Faculty Listing Archived 2010-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Izzo, David Garrett (June 2008). Huxley's Brave new world: essays. McFarland. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-0-7864-3683-5. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  3. ^ [1] Archived 2015-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ “Front Matter.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, vol. 20, no. 1, 2016. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26417785. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
  5. ^ Reinders, Eric, and Dana Sawyer. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, vol. 20, no. 1, 2016, pp. 132–33. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26417812. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
  6. ^ Announcement of The Perennial Philosophy Reloaded release [2].