Kenneth William Morgan (October 15, 1908 – December 23, 2011) was an American educator in the field of religion and a proponent of teaching other religions from the perspective of that religion's scholars. After completing Harvard Divinity School in 1935, he spent a year in India living in ashrams, visiting religious sites and meeting scholars. In the 1950s, while teaching Asian religions, he developed and edited books on Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam written by leading religious scholars of those faiths. He was instrumental in establishing academic centers for the study of world religions, several national professional associations, and numerous educational careers. For 25 years at Colgate University he served as chaplain, Professor of Religion, Director of Chapel House, and Director of Fund for the Study of World Religions. Life Morgan was born on October 15, 1908, in Great Falls, Montana, into the "devout Methodist home" of Rev. Walter A. Morgan and Della Moore Morgan. The family returned to Iowa in 1910 where Walter served as pastor in several churches. Morgan graduated from Des Moines High School in 1925 and enrolled in Des Moines University. Planning to become a Methodist minister, he transferred to Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned his BA in 1929. His interest in philosophy took him to graduate school at Harvard University, where by 1933 he had completed the necessary coursework for a Ph.D. when he transferred to Harvard Divinity School. Morgan found his spiritual development was enhanced by understanding the commonality of all religious quests for truth. He attended a variety of worship services in his personal search for religious understanding, and took advantage of opportunities to meet Asian religious scholars. An introduction to Swami Nikhilananda at the Ramakrishna Mission Center in New York City led to an invitation for residency at ashrams in India to live as swamis did, without special accommodations. In 1935, shortly after completing Divinity School with an S.T.B. degree, he was on a boat to India for a year of residence and study in Hindu ashrams. He spent several months living at Belur Math temple on the banks of the Ganges River in Calcutta and several more at Mayawati Ashram in the Himalayas. Traveling between ashrams, he visited universities and holy sites where he met Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and many other scholars and educators. More doors opened for him after it became known that British Criminal Investigation Department agents brought