The Religion of Man

Cultural studies. Religion. Foreword by Phillip Novak. Tagore is unequivocable in his faith. He appreciates the intellectual triumphs of science, but he writes as a poet and philosopher. Man must never lose, in his material quests, his longing the touch of the Divine. Today, as he says, all barriers are down, the "God of humanity has arrived at the gates of the ruined temple of the tribe." Tagore achieved fame as a novelist, playwright, poet, painter, lecturer, politician and composer. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the first non-European to achieve such honor.