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STAGE DIRECTIONS: Scene Two. My Room 101. (Enter Miriam.) A woman in her early 60s strides to the front of a large lecture hall, dark wood paneling. She waits for the class to quiet down, for the school bell to fade away. MIRIAM: (holding the book up again) This is the most powerful, and the most dangerous…text… inA merican culture today. And so we’d better try to understand what’s in it, don’t you think?*

Earlier this month I stood backstage at Joe’s their experiences, beliefs and values, she Pub, a venue for public performance on the goes on to share much more of her own on east side of New York City, with playwrights day one (including a recurrent childhood Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, actors memory) than many teachers (myself F. Murray Abraham and Micah Stock, and Letter included) would be comfortable with. But in popular author Bruce Feiler, waiting to go the performance I did have fun with Miriam; out front and do a dramatic reading of four I camped it up a bit with “first day of the scenes from a play in progress, The Good from the semester” bravura, playing to a crowd of Book. This play, commissioned by Court ersatz students who (while eating arugula Theatre from the authors of the highly and drinking Brooklyn lager) might mistake acclaimed An Iliad, will have its world premier Dean the professor for the subject matter (and at Court on March 19, 2015. My own would that be a mistake, in that context?!). association with the play goes back to the Many of us who teach religion (normally in spring of 2012, when Steve Albert, Executive classrooms, not pubs) know how to do that, Director of Court, whose vision is to make have done that, feel the pull, one not unique the theatre all the more a theatre of and not to us among educators, but surely in our just at the University of Chicago, asked pen. How to do so with integrity, both for me if the Divinity School would want to be the subject matter and for the students? involved in a sure-to-be controversial I join Miriam as an educator in the ethical play about the Bible. Of course we do, I said. commitment not to soft-peddle but to address A creative collaboration with Lisa and directly the ethical dilemmas the Bible Denis on their play began in my office on a has posed and continues to pose (whether in Saturday in April, 2012, and has since terms of Christian anti-Judaism, or treatment included many hours of keen conversation of women, the LGBTQ community, justification about the history of the Bible (starting of slavery, attitudes towards the environment). with my question to them 20 minutes in to However, as an educator I think that current our first conversation, “which Bible are its benignity. In rehearsal at Joe’s Pub prior readers empirically will not leave all their you talking about?”)—in terms of its to the performance I had read Miriam’s lines prior experiences and assumptions at the door, compo­sition, distribution, translation, as challenging, provoking her students in nor are there only two options (leave it, bring physical formats, etc.—the history of its a scolding tone, insisting that they leave all it wholesale), but that it is essential to teach reception through the centuries, and its that they brought to the study of the Bible in a way that students (and professors) must behind, and enter a new conversation with impact in contemporary American culture, Continued on page 6 both on individuals and on public life. new rules about it. I read her as serious, This is the process that led to my first and deadly serious. In the notes after the first only off-Broadway theatrical performance reading, Lisa said to me: Margaret, you really “Many of us who teach on September 15, as I read stage directions need to have more fun with Miriam. She is for one scene, read the part of Lydia (of not as severe or completely serious as you religion (normally in are representing her. She is also a diva, a Thyatira, Acts 16), and, in my largest role, classrooms, not in pubs), that of the self-described atheist biblical lecturer who is known for captivating and scholar, Miriam, whose lines I quoted above. entertaining her audiences. I guess, I said to know how to do that, have Miriam is a teacher who is exasperated Lisa, I’m having a hard time conveying a by her students’ easy familiarity with the character who seems so contradictory to me: done that, feel the pull ...” Bible, sense of its naturalness or inevitability, while demanding that her students jettison

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website at divinity.uchicago.edu, find us on Facebook, Twitter, Karin Krause is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Theology and Visual Culture; Affiliate Faculty, and Instagram, and sign up for our weekly email on public Department of Art History. She is the author of eventsS in Swift Hall. Die illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz (Reichert Press, 2004) and the coeditor of Bild und Text im Mittelalter Krause and Miller Join Faculty (Böhlau Press, 2011). She is currently working on two monographs, tentatively titled Two new faculty members—Richard Ethics and American Institutions at IU. His “Propaganda – Cult – Scholarship. The Response Miller and Karin Krause—have joined research interests include religion and public to Byzantine Artifacts in Venice (13th–18th c.)” us in Swift Hall. life, political and social ethics, theory and and “Confirming Authenticity: Images of method in religious thought and ethics, and Inspiration in Byzantium and Beyond.” Richard B. Miller (PhD, practical ethics. Miller is the author of Most recently she has been Lecturer University of Chicago, 1985) Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and at the University of Basel and Visiting Lecturer is Professor of Religious the Just-War Tradition (University of Chicago at the University of Vienna. Ethics. He comes to us from Press, 1991); Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Krause’s research interests include Indiana University, where Poetics of Practical Reasoning (University of phenomena of cultural exchange in the he was most recently Provost Chicago Press, 1996); Children, Ethics, and Mediterranean until the early modern period, Professor in Religious Modern Medicine (Indiana University Press, visualization strategies and text reception in Studies. From 2003–13 he 2003), and Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought the visual arts from Late Antiquity to the Middle was Director of the Poynter (Columbia University Press, 2010). He is currently Ages, the impact of the Classical heritage on Center for the Study of at work on two projects: a collection of papers Byzantine art, and Byzantine book culture.

William Schweiker elected President of Society for Christian Ethics

William Schweiker, the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, has been elected President for the Society of Christian Ethics. He will serve as Vice President during 2014–2015, and as President during 2015– 2016. An international non-denominational scholarly association, the Society of Christian Ethics promotes scholarly work in Christian ethics and in the relation of Christian ethics to other traditions of ethics, and to social, economic, political and cultural problems. The SCE promotes research in the history of ethics and moral theology, theoretical issues relating to the interplay of theology and ethics, methodology in ethical reflection

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2014 New Members Include Faculty and Alumni

“It is a privilege to honor these men and Nature Religion, A Republic of Mind and Spirit: women for their extraordinary individual A Cultural History of American Metaphysical accomplishments,” said Don Randel, Chair of the Religion; America: Religions and Religion, Academy’s Board of Directors. “The knowledge 5th. ed., and Nature Religion in America: From and expertise of our members give the Academy the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. a unique capacity—and responsibility—to John B. Cobb, Jr., the Divinity School’s provide practical policy solutions to the pressing Alumnus of the Year for 1985, is Emeritus challenges of the day. We look forward to Professor, Claremont School of Theology and engaging our new members in this work.” Claremont Graduate School. He has held many Professor Betz, the Shailer Mathews positions including Ingraham Professor of Professor Emeritus of New Testament in the Theology at the Claremont School of Theology, Divinity School, the Department of New Avery Professor at the Claremont Graduate Testament and Early Christian Literature, and School, Fullbright Professor at the University of the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean Mainz, Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt, Harvard, World, has been involved in international and the University of Chicago Divinity Schools. research and publication projects. He serves as His writings include Christ in a Pluralistic Age; editor-in-chief of the nine-volume lexicon God and the World; and (co-authored with Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, of which Herman Daly) For the Common Good, which was an English language edition, Religion Past and co-winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Present, is underway. Prof. Betz’s research Improving World Order. interests focus on early Christian literature and Helen Hardacre is Reischauer Institute The American Academy of Arts and Sciences its literary, religious, and cultural environment Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at has announced its elected members for 2014, of the Greco-Roman world. He has published Harvard University. Her research on religion which include some of the world’s most accom- three influential commentaries in the Hermeneia focuses on the manner in which traditional plished leaders from academia, business, public series and several monographs, including doctrines and rituals are transformed and affairs, the humanities and the arts. All four new Lucian of Samosata and the New Testament; adapted in contemporary life. Her publications members in the Religious Studies category for Discipleship and Imitation of Christ; The Apostle include Marketing the Menacing Fetus in 2014 are Divinity School affiliates:Hans Dieter Paul and the Socratic Tradition; Essays on the Japan (1997), which won the Arisawa Hiromichi Betz, Shailer Mathews Professor Emeritus of New Sermon on the Mount; and two edited volumes Prize, and Religion and Society in Nineteenth- Testament and alumni Catherine L. Albanese on Plutarch and early Christ ian literature. Five Century Japan: A Study of the Southern Kanto (MA 1970, PhD 1972), John B. Cobb, Jr. (MA 1949, volumes of his collected essays (in English Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers PhD 1952), and Helen Hardacre (PhD 1980). and in German) have appeared (1990–2009) (2002). Her current research centers on the One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary under the titles Hellenismus und Urchristentum; issue of constitutional revision and its effect societies, the Academy is also a leading center for Synoptische Studien; Paulinische Studien; on religious groups. independent policy research. Members contribute Antike und Christentum; Paulinische Theologie Since its founding in 1780, the Academy has to Academy publications and studies of science und Religionsgeschichte. A critical edition elected leading “thinkers and doers” from and technology policy, energy and global security, and commentary of PGM IV.475–820 appeared each generation, including George Washington social policy and American institutions, and under the title The ‘Mithras Liturgy’ (2003). and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth the humanities, arts, and education. Members The Divinity School’s Alumna of the Year for century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo of the 2014 class include winners of the Nobel 1991 and a scholar of American religious Emerson in the nineteenth, and Margaret Prize; the Wolf Prize; the Pulitzer Prize; National history, Catherine Albanese is J. F. Rowny Meade and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Medal of the Arts; MacArthur, Guggenheim, Professor Emerita in Comparative Religions & twentieth. The current membership includes and Fulbright Fellowships; and Grammy, Emmy, Research Professor at the University of California more than 250 Nobel laureates and more Oscar, and Tony Awards. at Santa Barbara. Her books include Reconsidering than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.

In Memoriam

Robert M. Grant, 1917–2014 the Spirit (1957); The Earliest Lives of Jesus of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Chicago (1961); Augustus to Constantine: The Rise and Society of Biblical Research, American Society of Robert McQueen Grant passed away at his home Triumph of Christianity in the Roman World Church History, and the North American Patristics in Hyde Park on June 10, 2014 at the age of 96. (1970; revised ed. 2004); Eusebius as Church Society. He was an elected member of the Grant was born on November 25, 1917 Historian (1980); Greek Apologists of the American Academy of Art and Sciences (1981). in Evanston, Illinois. He received the BA with Second Century (1988), Heresy and Criticism Mr. Grant is survived by his wife, Peggy distinction from Northwestern University, (1993); Irenaeus of Lyons (1995); and Paul in (née Margaret Huntington Horton) of Hyde a BD from Union TheologicΩSeminary, and an STM the Roman World: the Conflict at Corinth (2001). Park, and their children Douglas, Peter, Jim and ThD from Harvard University. He was an Over his thirty-five year teaching career at and Susan, six grandchildren and two ordained minister in the Protestant Episcopal the University of Chicago, Professor Grant great-grandchildren. Church. Grant was Carl Darling Buck Professor taught many of the academic leaders Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christian in the field of ancient Christianity. Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity Grant was also an international School, where he taught from 1953 until authority on U-Boats in World War I, his retirement in 1988. on which he published multiple Professor Grant was the most prolific volumes, including U-Boats Destroyed: and influential American historian of ancient The Effects of Anti-Submarine Christianity of his generation. The author of Warfare 1914–1918 (1964) and, over thirty-three books and countless articles, most recently, U-Boat Hunters: Code Grant’s work was characterized by philological Breakers, Divers and the Defeat exactness, a deep knowledge of the ancient of the U-Boats 1914–1918 (2004). world, and philosophical and theological Over his extended career Grant finesse, together with a tight prose style and received Fulbright and Guggenheim dry wit. Among his major works are Miracle Fellowships, and held many honors, and Natural Law in Graeco-Roman and Early memberships and leadership roles in Christian Thought (1952); The Letter and scholarly societies, such as president

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Continued from page 2 Davidson at the University of Judaism and and investigation, and comparative Philosophy of religious ethics. At the same time, the Society Ca’Foscari Religions in the addresses in national and global contexts Divinity School; The University Ca’ Foscari, Venice will confer its problems in applied and professional ethics, he is also in the highest honor on Arnold I. Davidson, naming him and various human rights and social justice Department of an honorary member of the faculty (Membro issues. The SCE meets annually in conjunction Philosophy, Onorario del Corpo Accademico). He will be the with the Society for Jewish Ethics and the the Department of first American to receive this honor. The conferring Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics. Among Comparative of this title will take place in a formal ceremony previous honors, Professor Schweiker has been Literature, the presided over by the Rector of the Università Ca’ Mercator Professor at Heidelberg University Department of Romance Languages and Foscari, Venezia and followed by a Lectio Magistralis. (2012), a Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer (2011– Literatures, and the Committee on the Concep- Davidson has given the Lezioni Veneziane 2012), and recipient of the University of tual and Historical Studies of Science. He is also and is a regular visiting professor in the Chicago Faculty Award for Graduate Teaching Director of the France-Chicago Center. In 2013 Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage. and Mentoring. he was inducted as an Officier dans l’Ordre des Arnold Davidson is the Robert O. Anderson Palmes Académiques. Distinguished Service Professor of the Philosophy

Divinity Students Association Makes Gift for Current and Future Students

he Divinity Students Association (DSA), in partnership with the Grounds of Being Coffee Shop, has made a gift of $40,000 to the University of Chicago Divinity School for the purpose of enhancing the academic and personal welfare of current—and future— TDivinity School students. “The student community Association Endowment the culmination of well over a year’s worth of work at the Divinity School is Fund. The new Swift Care and planning. Conversations about this gift were diverse and continually Fund will support current initiated in 2012 between the administration changing. This gift Divinity students who and the then-leadership of the DSA, particularly reminds the student are experiencing Chris Hanley (MDiv 2013), President, and Peter body that their voices financial hardship Youngblood (MA 2013), Treasurer, but also matter and that they can due to a life crisis. including prior officers Michael LeChevallier, (MDiv have a positive and Applications for these 2011 and a PhD student in Religious Ethics), direct impact on funds will be adminis- Jennifer Dixon (MA 2013), and Rachel Watson, a improving student life tered entirely through current PhD student in Religion and Literature. at Swift,” said Sara-Jo the office of the Dean The 2013–2014 officers slate then took over Swiatek, the DSA President and a current PhD of Students and will be strictly confidential. in the hard and time-consuming work of creating student (MA 2014), about the gift. According to Teresa Hord Owens, Dean and administering the gift. Ms. Swiatek and The DSA’s donation represents revenue from of Students, “the Swift Cares Fund represents a Elijah Kindred, MDiv student and DSA Treasurer, Grounds of Being, the student-run coffee shop legacy that will benefit Divinity School students worked with the previous DSA board, Divinity that inhabits space in the Swift Hall basement, both now and into the future. Life’s emergencies School administrators, professional accountants, long famous for its irreverent tagline—“Where will happen, and Swift Cares will help to ease and the rest of the current DSA leadership—VP God Drinks Coffee.” All profits from Grounds of the temporary crises that many students face. and MDiv student Jem Jebbia, Graduate Council Being are administered by the DSA. The I am immensely proud of our students for Representative and MA student Ted Good, and coffeeshop has been managed by History of establishing such a tangible expression of Secretary and MA student Marcella Wilkinson—to Christianity PhD student Greg Chatterley since compassion for their fellow students.” work out multiple questions raising from major 2010 with help from financial manager Bethany The Endowment Fund, now called the points such as how to use the funds represented Lowery, a PhD student in the Religions in America Divinity Students Association Endowment to examining crucial details such as monthly area. “The Divinity School Coffee Shop has Fund, is used to support Divinity School students financial statements. always existed to serve the Divinity School and and to enhance student life at the School. “DSA’s gift to the Divinity School reflects how University communities,” said Mr. Chatterley. Possible uses include travel funds for students much respect the students have for their School “We are beyond proud and excited to accomplish to attend or make presentations at academic and how committed they are to supporting the that purpose to the fullest extent by making this conferences or enhancements to student-use professional and social needs of their peers,” said gift, and we are profoundly grateful for having the common spaces. Use of the funds will be Ms. Swiatek. “It is my hope that with this gift, and opportunity to do so.” determined on an ongoing basis by the leadership the two funds we have set up this year, students Dean Mitchell praised the group of student of the DSA and the Dean and Dean of Students will feel as though they have more support behind leaders who made this gift possible, saying, of the School. them as they pursue their rigorous studies.” “the coffee shop under the current management The Divinity Students Association is run by The DSA’s gift was formally recognized on is a wonderful business model of ecological and for Divinity School students and contributes Thursday, April 10, in the DSA space in the sustainability and accountability to the community. to many spheres of life in the Divinity School: basement floor of Swift Hall with a reception— It’s very fitting that coffee shop revenue should academic, professional, and social. The DSA and cake. be used for the benefit of future students as well funds student academic clubs, major events and as current ones. The vision, foresight, and conferences, and social events that contribute professionalism of the DSA leadership are simply to student life and camaraderie outside of the remarkable and it will greatly benefit students classroom, such as quarterly pub nights, a now and in the years to come.” weekly coffee hour, and the famous “4–to-8”s. The gift will be allocated in two ways: to set Above all else, the DSA is committed to fostering up the “Swift Care Fund” and to be added into a true community of Divinity students from the DSA Endowment. The Divinity Students every degree program. Association Scholarship Fund, originally While the gift was first publicly announced at a established in 1997 with funds from the DSA, meeting of the Divinity School’s Visiting Committee has been renamed the Divinity Students on Thursday, February 27, 2014, it represents

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Laurie L. Patton Named Alumna of the Year 2015

Dean Margaret M. Mitchell has announced that, upon recommendation from the Divinity School’s Alumni Council, the Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union has named Laurie L. Patton (AM 1986, PhD 1991 in the History of Religions area) as the Divinity School’s Alumna of the Year for 2015. Dean of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, the Robert F. Durden Professor of Religion, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Patton is an accomplished scholar and the author or editor of eight books on South Asian history, culture and religion. In addition to two monographs on early Indian mythology and ritual, she has published two books of poetry, Fire’s Goal: Poems from a Hindu Year (2003) and Angel’s Task (2011). She also translated the classical Sanskrit text The Bhagavad Gita (2008) for the Penguin Classics Series. In 1996 she coedited Myth disciplines within the research University and by faculty and initiated hiring strategies for and Method with Wendy Doniger, the Mircea broader society.” women and underrepresented minorities in Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of Previously the Charles Howard Candler the STEM fields. Last year she established the History of Religions. professor of religions and inaugural director of and helped to design the “Language Arts and Dean Patton has lectured widely on Emory University’s Center for Faculty Development Media Program” (LAMP), an undergraduate interfaith issues and religion and public life, and Excellence in the office of the Provost, program in effective communication in and consulted with White House offices on Patton served as chair of the religion department contemporary media (on-line, in person, in faith-based initiatives as well as on civic from 2000–07, founded and co-convened writing). She also sponsored a new online engagement. In her capacity as a scholar of the Religions and the Human Spirit Strategic “My Advising Network,” a program that allows culture and society she has also worked as a Plan, and received the Emory Williams Award— Duke undergraduates to see, develop, manage, consultant on branding and identity for several Emory’s most prestigious honor for teaching— and contact their advising network at Duke. national and international corporations. in 2005. Finally, she created a Less Commonly Taught Of the award, Dean Mitchell said “Dean Laurie During her first three years at Duke, Patton Languages on-line partnership with the Patton exemplifies the best of the University developed the first university-wide course, with University of Virginia and created an Advising of Chicago Divinity School. While producing her Arts & Sciences team sponsored the Task Force to launch key reforms for pre-major field-defining scholarship on Hinduism, and creation of the first and only global advising and major advising. the Vedic traditions in particular, she has program in the country, and launched Scholars provided outstanding educational leadership & Publics, a forum for scholars to engage in Please watch our website for further announce- at Duke, and before that at Emory, insisting research in partnership with the community. In ments regarding Dean Patton’s Alumna of on the highest academic standards and addition, she has established a grant fund to the Year lecture and reception, to be held on articulating the power and depth of the humanistic encourage collaboration and course development April 23rd, 2015.

Chicago Commons Project

he Divinity School has received a $475,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc to • gain greater knowledge and insight about establish “The Chicago Commons Project,” a program of leadership development issues which pose significant challenges in and enrichment for Chicago-area pastors. The Divinity School is one of several Chicagoland and beyond; T • expand their imaginations about the ways organizations across the country to receive grants as part of the Endowment’s Early that religious communities and their leaders Career Pastoral Development Initiative aimed at developing leadership programs for are called to serve their communities. pastors in the early stages of their careers. The principal investigator for the Chicago The Chicago Commons Project seeks to religious leaders whose work enriches the Commons Project is Rev. Cynthia Lindner, Director expand the capacity and extend the reach of common good. During a two-year period of of Ministry Studies and Clinical Professor for promising young clergy, cultivating resilience, intensive theological and civic reflection, Preaching and Pastoral Care at the Divinity stamina and wisdom for the challenging work program fellows will: School. Rev. Lindner was the PI for the Divinity of religious leadership. The program will • develop deep and nourishing relationships School’s recent “Border Crossings” project, also identify talented area clergy at a pivotal early with clergy leaders in their age cohort that funded by the Endowment, which fostered stage in their careers, gathering them into can inspire and sustain them as they move collaborations in classrooms and congregations ecumenically, theologically and racially into future positions of leadership in their between faculty, clergy practitioners, PhD diverse cohorts that will engage in significant churches and communities; students and MDiv students. In addition to her conversations with influential civic leaders • cultivate a confidence in themselves, work with MDiv students, Rev. Lindner maintains from across the spectrum of public life and their traditions and in the contribution a clinical practice at the Center for Religion and the arts. they make to public life that will energize Psychotherapy of Chicago where she facilitates The Chicago Commons Project is a natural their congregational leadership; foster clergy workshops and peer education groups, and extension of the University of Chicago Divinity collegial relationships and practices is researching clergy narratives and ministerial School’s long-standing commitment to educate across professions that will help build multiplicity for an upcoming book on pastoral and equip thoughtful, creative and courageous communities’ capacity identity and practice.

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Creating an Open Space: Remodeling Midweek Worship

“…A time to hear bells rung, not as a way of keeping time, but as a way of reflecting on the ways that time keeps us…A time to put our secular, popular sensibilities in perspective, and hear all twelve tones.

Noon Prayer is a time to locate one’s self in the catalyst for other significant changes around had graduated, others continued to work on middle of an impossibly long arc, without a the Chapel: midweek worship at the Divinity “Wednesday Worship,” recruiting additional clear trajectory. Sometimes in life, things fly by. School continues to experience its own season student leaders to join their ongoing explora- But often, they are long. Today is going to be of transformation. While the Chapel was closed tion of prayer forms and styles of reflection that a long day. Writing a constructive theological for remodeling during the 2012-13 school year, might honor participants’ particularity, while at paper is long. Marriage is long. Watching the long-standing Wednesday morning chapel the same time offering an open space for the for the arrival of the Kingdom of God is long. service was temporarily relocated to the Divinity sharing of a common humanity. In the early Standing in the middle of these tasks can School’s lecture hall. A student committee rose days of their inclusive efforts, planners created be disorienting. The horizon may stretch in all to the challenge of hosting a weekly worship litanies and song lyrics that sought to be directions equally. At the beginning of the experience in those more austere academic welcoming to all but still seemed protestant in day, the paper, the relationship, the direction is surroundings, initiating a rich conversation form. Last year’s group developed a different clear. The sun is heading that way. I can’t wait about the relationship of study and prayer and strategy, inviting individual members of the to be intimate with that person. The Emancipation exploring the particularity of ritual and meaning community to share leadership of the service Proclamation is going to move our country in a multi-religious community. After many by reflecting on their own spiritual practice and towards that kind of equality. years of sitting in Bond Chapel pews facing a sharing some aspect of that practice with the Today, we take time recognize that we are in preacher or presider, the worship planners group. Participants in the service were free to the middle of many long arcs, long journeys. experimented with multiple seating patterns, join, or watch, or to meditate on their own. After a morning of work and travel, engaging our a variety of preaching/teaching and musical While leaders, practices and music changed tasks, earning our keep, sweating from our styles, and a variety of ways to offer prayers— from week to week, an “open space” for efforts, we are in danger of being consumed by silently, as the participants remained seated, offering prayers—silent and aloud, enacting our physical hunger. We are hungry for food. or written while on our knees at prayer “stations” through candlelighting or petition-writing—was We are hungry for tangible results. Let us take and offered up on slips of paper to be read an enduring feature of every gathering. time to recognize our hunger for meaning. Let us aloud during the corporate prayer. It was as As student planners/leaders Megham take time to recognize our hunger for a deeper if the open space of the lecture hall invited— Freytag and George Arceneaux (both current sense of communion with one another. Let us take perhaps demanded—that worshippers bring MDivs) explained, “we understand this time to time to retrace our steps. Let us take time to heightened levels of openness and intentionality be an opportunity to provide a space to reorient ourselves, being guided by our to their practice. Words and forms that seemed authentically express, and encounter with consciences. Perhaps we may find new directions.” consonant with the community’s experience openness, the variety of ways members of this in the Bond Chapel venue yielded to more community practice living before the transcendent. hospitable and innovative expressions of As far as we know, there is no other space, —Paul Goodenough, recent MDiv graduate prayer and solidarity in the plain light of the either on campus or in Chicago, that provides and music coordinator for Open Space, third floor lecture hall. people being trained in religious scholarship 2013–14 excerpted from his reflection on When the midweek service returned to its and leadership with the opportunity to Noon Prayer, “Howling at the Noon” Bond Chapel home a year ago, moveable chairs authentically encounter the rituals and replaced the traditional pews, and restored traditions of those from a variety backgrounds The recent renovation of Bond Chapel for the woodwork and new organ pipes gleamed. While and have the opportunity to ask questions, installation of the Reneker organ was the some of the original student planning team Continued on page 7

Dean’s Letter

Continued from the front cover in American culture today.” Art and education are not the same thing (and I have not acknowledge and reevaluate their governing become either an actor or a playwright!), The Good Book will have its assumptions, and be responsible for the but they are and should be in continual, world premiere at the Court arguments they make with like and mutually enriching conversation, such as Theatre, the professional theatre non-likeminded others on the basis of those The Good Book collaboration to date has on campus at the University of assumptions and the evidence. represented beautifully. And now that Miriam’s classroom is not exactly my Chicago, on March 19, 2015, and conversation is being extended to broader classroom, but Miriam’s room 101 will be in run through April 19th. Tickets audiences in New York, Chicago, and my classroom in Swift 106 this spring, can be purchased online anytime beyond. A conversation to be continued! as I teach the Introduction to the New or by calling the box office Testament, and the class and I together will *Stage directions and text from The Good at (773) 753-4472. engage in dialogue around the play, both in Book, by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson terms of its accounting of the history of the (used by permission). Front-page image: For more information, (Protestant) Bible, the history of its reception Photo of Aquila’s Greek translation of the please visit and forms of serious and responsible Bible, with liturgical poetry by Yannai http://www.courttheatre.org/ plays/the_good_book pedagogy around this text Miriam so written over it, assigned palaeographically urgently claims is “the most dangerous text to the 6th c. CE, (University of Cambridge)

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An Interview with Richard B. Miller

ichard B. Miller is Professor of Religious Ethics. He spoke with us about his work and his R return to Swift Hall. CIRCA: As an the mind from slavish habit and custom in evaluating, and at times re-imagining, the alumnus of the order to explore problems with fresh angles of claims of religious authorities and institutions. Divinity School, vision that empower learning across diverse That will be a study in intellectual history that what are you regions and controversies. My Chicago training aims to re-format how we understand modernity’s most looking built upon and deepened those commitments. various interrogations of religion, ranging from forward to, as early modern natural law thinkers through you return to CIRCA: What are the major questions in your Freud. So I have a number of irons in the fire. join the faculty? work right now? RM: I’m looking forward to joining a community of RM: I am currently finishing up a collection of CIRCA: What contributions do you see yourself scholars who are devoted to the study of ideas for published and unpublished papers that making to the conversational community at the its own sake, as an intrinsic good. I am committed coordinate research in religion, ethics, and Divinity School? to imparting skills of criticism, original research, culture. The thread that organizes that RM: I tend to organize my research under the and independent thinking as well as resources for collection is the idea that our lives oscillate rubric, “social criticism and the ethics of an intellectually robust and imaginative life. I’m between encounters with alterity and experiences belief.” Social critics assess conventions, excited by the opportunity to train the next of intimacy. I use those ideas as touchstones practices, and norms that guide the direction of generation of scholars in light of those values. in several focused chapter-length discussions institutions and aspirations of public culture. Along with that, I’m looking forward to about different kinds of relationships. I’m also The ethics of belief, as I use the term, consists entering into collaborations that cut across in the middle stages of a small book on theory of examining religion’s obligations given the established disciplinary boundaries and that and method in the study of religion. My view is demands of moral virtue, political justice, and aim to create new frontiers of knowledge. that virtually everything written at the theoretical concerns about social cooperation and The academic study of religion requires level of the academic study of religion has well-being. As a social critic addressing the scholars to acquire a broad set of diagnostic failed to articulate a clear, confident, and ethics of belief, I critically explore how skills and methodological literacy across robust justification of the field. Religious Studies normative claims that are generated by several domains. Scholars of religion must be is plagued by an obsessive attention to method religious thought and practice provide guides heteroglossic, conversant with different without sufficient attention to its proper ends. to human conduct in public life, and I do so methodological languages, the history of ideas, In the language of ethics, the field is driven by in dialogue with moral and political philosophy. and frames of analysis. I am looking forward to an underlying deontology rather than a clear I hope to add those ideas and predilections joining an intellectual community that is fluent teleology. What passes for “theory” in Religious to conversations in the Divinity School and across a range of conversations, theoretical Studies is preoccupied with articulating the beyond. I see myself as offering expertise in programs, and debates in the academy. proper protocols or duties of research without the history of ideas, political thought, moral In these and other ways, I know that I will due regard for its wider purposes. My own philosophy, and the academic study of religion. have a true home at the University of Chicago. proposal as a corrective is to tie the academic I am also engaged by various contemporary study of religion to an account, informed by the currents in cultural theory. I hope to enable CIRCA: How did your own training at Chicago work of Dewey, Said, and Nussbaum, of what colleagues and students to think about the shape your research and teaching? I’m calling the epistemic virtue of critical normative implications of their work and, RM: My training gave me the resources to humanistic understanding. When that manifesto together with them, to advance the public, be a scholar and social critic in the history of is done, I want to turn to a longer-term project critical understanding of religion at the Western thought, with special attention to on the moral authority of nature as a basis for University of Chicago. matters of religion and public life. At Chicago I was provided with a foundation for taking up questions in both the academy and public culture that are of historical and current importance. I was given the confidence to take chances and to resist the culture of risk-aversion that too often characterizes work in the academy. I hasten to add that my research and teaching have been shaped from their inception by the democratic promise of higher education. I am committed to the notion of a liberal education in the classical sense, namely, one that frees

Fall/WinterWinter 20112014 | 7 The Martin Marty Center’s Religion and Culture Marty Web Forum continues to feature exciting new areas of research and theoretical thinking about religion, Center bringing together scholars from an array of academic disciplines for lively and informed conversation about the manifestations of News and religion in societies and cultures, past and present. Events Religion and Culture Web Forum

Emily D. Crews has been named the new Managing Editor of the Religion and Culture Web Forum, the Martin Marty Center’s monthly online forum for discussion about the relationship of scholarship in religion to culture and public life.

Crews received her BA in religious studies from care, particularly as they are related to HIV and Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia and AIDS and childbirth. spent several years as a Peace Corps Volunteer Crews brings to the Web Forum considerable in Southern Africa before beginning her MA at academic editing and web management the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is experience. She has served as an editorial currently a PhD student at the Divinity School. assistant at History of Religions, published by Her research concerns the broad themes of the University of Chicago Press, and managed religion, gender, and reproductive and sexual several websites and social media networking health in African communities in Africa and the accounts. In her position as Managing Editor United States. She is specifically interested in Crews looks forward to participating in the long how religion in its many forms is interwoven tradition of public engagement and critical with Africans’ practices and ideas of health- inquiry fostered by the Martin Marty Center.

from his Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (W.W. Norton and Co. 2013: from Fred Donner (University of Chicago), Robert Gleave (University of Exeter), and Angelika Neuwirth (Frei Universität Berlin).

November 2013 Alexander Keith Rocklin, a 2012–13 Martin Marty Center Jr. Fellow, presented “Haunting Violence: Obeah, the Translation of Spirits, and the Management of the Living and the Dead in Colonial Trinidad.” Ayisha Khan (New York University) and Paul Johnson (University of Michigan), and Lindsey Harlan (Connecticut College) responded.

December 2013 Allison Gray presented “Encounters with a Homicidal Bath Demon: Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Gregory Thaumaturgus.” Our gratitude to outgoing editor, Vince Evener 1956 (University of Texas Press 2013). Shahzad Janet Spittler (Texas Christian University) responded. (PhD, History of Christianity, 2014), whose Bashir (Stanford University), Neil Kodesh vision, professionalism, and collegiality have (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and Scott January 2014 Matthew J. Milliner (Wheaton been greatly appreciated. Kugle (Emory University). College; Art History) presented “The Sexuality This year’s fora featured contributors, of Christ in Byzantine Art and in Hypermodern papers, and respondents from a wide range October 2013 David Nirenberg (University of Oblivion.” Robert Nelson (Yale University), of disciplines. We were especially pleased that Chicago) presented the chapter, “‘To Every to feature the work of Divinity School PhD Prophet an Adversary:’ Jewish Enmity in Islam,” Continued on page 16 candidates writing on areas little explored by previous web fora. Join the conversation September 2013 Ellen Amster (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) presented “Healing the The Web Forum welcomes contributions from Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi Saints and God’s established scholars; please send inquiries to Law in a Corporeal City of Virtue,” from her [email protected] book, Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877–

8 Circa MAlmainistry Wilson Program Teaching Update Fellow Report

The course I had the pleasure to teach as the AlmaW ilson teaching fellow was called “Race and Religion in the Americas,” and it looked at the social constructions of race and religion. The primary goal of the course was not to suggest that race “doesn’t exist” or even simply to argue that the categories race and religion are social constructs (although this latter point was crucial to the sustained argument over the quarter). Rather I was trying to get across to my of South Asian migration to undergraduate students a problem that I was the Americas as a way to struggling with in my own research, the interrogate the concept of somewhat challenging (even for me) notion “whiteness.” And we ended that the way we define and understand one social with the tragic and difficult category, like race, and another, like religion (but events of the suicides of the also class, gender, and sexuality, among others), Peoples Temple at Jonestown. are dependent on one another. Who or what has I was really quite pleased gotten to count as “religious” has changed over with what the students were time, and how those changes have unfolded has able to do with the challenging been intimately connected with other categories. questions of the course. For My course traced the contours of such unfoldings the midterm, the students with respect to the lived categories of race had to watch the musician and religion in the history of the colonial and Sun Ra’s ambiguous and surreal postcolonial Americas. film “Space is the Place,” part Bouncing around the globe, following a philosophical treatise, part rough chronology, and introducing key 70s exploitation movie. Their theoretical terms along the way, the sweep of paper on Sun Ra’s film the course took us from the caste system and allowed the students to inquisition trials in sixteenth century Mexico experiment and play with the to Hindu ritual theatre and the politics of color pieces we had read in the course so far. While Sometimes the surprise was mine, when in twenty first century Trinidad. The first week some assignments, for instance the final exam, students offered the class a different or novel of the course began with some theoretical importantly demonstrated the students’ concrete interpretation of our readings that had not reflections, to give the class a common vocabulary understandings of the course materials, for struck us before then. The former were to facilitate our conversations about the this assignment the students let loose on a blank moments when it seemed most clear to me that problems we were approaching. Over the canvas of sorts, a strange text we had not the ideas I was trying to teach were getting following weeks we looked at the category discussed together. In their responses I got to across, that the concepts from the course were witchcraft; we also explored the ways in see them wrestling with Ra’s movie using slowly assembling into an intellectual tool kit which racially diverse practitioners of what we our previous class discussion and readings with which students could take apart an would call Afro-Caribbean religions began (both theoretical and comparative examples). example and try to make some sense of it. The to articulate what they were doing, which And they truly shone. latter were moments where I was learning was being called “witchcraft,” in the more Some of the most gratifying times in class something, my students pushing me to think acceptable terms of “religion.” We then moved were the surprising moments when students about the issues and examples of the course in to focus on the twentieth century US, looking had realizations about the texts we were new ways. Together and on balance these sorts at African Americans’ reimaginings of Islam reading. Sometimes these were moments of of moments make teaching the exhilarating as a way to side step and redefine oppressive understanding, when a student finally got a key task it is. racial hierarchies. We also traced the history point we had been working through in class. —Alexander Rocklin

W. Clark Gilpin Named Interim Director

W. Clark Gilpin, the Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity and Theology, will serve as Interim Director of the Center during the 2014–2015 academic year. He served as dean of the Divinity School from 1990 to 2000; from 2000 to 2004 he directed the Martin Marty Center, and he has also served as the director of the university’s Nicholson Center for British Studies and as a member of the executive council of the university’s Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture. Gilpin studies the history of modern Christianity, especially in relation to literature, and is currently writing about the letter from prison as a genre of religious literature in early modern England.

Fall/Winter 2014 | 9 Sightings continued to take notice of Sightings religion’s role in social justice issues and to Martin Marty Center assess whether this role advanced or set back justice. It commented on social justice uring the past academic year, Sightings sighted and analyzed religion as issues that included fasting for immigration it touched lives in the United States as well as in places like Israel, Palestine, reform, faith-based prisons, gun-control, Quebec’s struggle to make space for religious Syria, Germany, Russia, Italy, India, Pakistan, and Ghana. It also paid minorities, lawsuits by privately-held Dtribute to several influential scholars who died this year:W ill C. Campbell, Robert corporations seeking to opt out of providing Bellah, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Ian Barbour. In addition, it served as a platform health-care coverage for birth control, same-sex marriage, the cancellation of the to engage flashpoint issues directly impacting the Divinity School such as Penguin reality show “Duck Dynasty” after its patriarch Publisher’s decision to withdraw its India edition of Wendy Doniger’s On Hinduism made anti-gay statements, the Boycott- Divestment-Sanctions movement targeting after conservative Hindus there threatened a lawsuit. Israel, the death penalty, the high incarceration On Mondays, Sightings continues to publish A big change for Sightings: every week, rates of young black men, and more. analyses by the ever-popular Martin Marty, Martin Marty’s pieces are re-posted, with Sightings also looked for religion’s who draws on the resources of his seemingly attribution, in the Huffington Post’s “Religion” influence, for good or for ill, in events around inexhaustible memory-bank and on a wide- section. Sightings saw a significant jump in the globe. It highlighted the tenth anniversary range of media and online discussions email-subscriptions after it began to appear in of 9/11, President Putin’s targeting of gay to provide illuminating commentary about the Huffington Post. As for Sightings distributed and lesbian Russians backed by the Russian important current events. Though he usually by email, after several months of experimentation Orthodox Church, the precarious status of focuses on U.S. happenings, Prof. Marty offered with various banners and image lay-outs, its Christian Syrians, the sectarian aspects of the his informed perspective on events abroad appearance has stabilized. It now has its own Syrian uprising, diaspora Ghanian-Christians on several occasions. On Thursdays, Sightings banner, an image to illustrate the theme of who rely on shamans and medical doctors publishes essays often, but not always, written the piece, as well as thumbnail images of the when ill, the use of military drones by the United by University of Chicago PhD alums as well as author and editor. Another big change: the States, and the way that Israel’s commitment Divinity School faculty, MA, MDiv, and PhD graphically stunning and easy-to-navigate to being a Jewish nation impacts its conflict students and candidates. During the first six website for the Divinity School and the Marty with Palestinian. months of 2014, the two 2013-14 Senior Center “went live” last fall. Sightings, which is Sightings also explored issues important to Fellows, and several of the Junior Fellows in the posted to the Marty Center’s website, also identity groups: the conversion of significant Marty Center wrote Sightings pieces, bringing got a makeover of its online appearance. It now numbers of Romani to Evangelical Christianity to bear their areas of scholarly expertise on sports a polished look and features an image in central Europe, the rise of conservative today’s religious scene. to give it greater eye-appeal. Continued on page 11

Marty Center Fellows 2014–2015

The Marty Center, continuing its emphasis on Senior Fellows Junior Fellows global interactions and aspects of religion, welcomes fourteen dissertation (junior) fellows We welcome three Senior Fellows this academic Katherine Alexander and three senior fellows. year: Susan Shapiro, Loren Lybarger and East Asian Languages and Civilizations This year’s dissertation seminar is being Betty Bayer. Jason Bartulis offered in two sections, one led by Wendy English Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Betty M. Bayer joins us for her second year Professor of the History of Religions, and the as an MMC Senior Fellow. Bayer is professor Jason Cather other by W. Clark Gilpin, Margaret E. Burton of Women’s Studies at Hobart and William Philosophy of Religions Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. While a senior Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Andrew Durdin fellow at the Martin Marty Center she will be History of Christianity and Theology and Interim History of Religions Director of the Martin Marty Center. The seminar is working on her book “Revelation or Revolution? designed to advance inter­disciplinary research. Cognitive Dissonance and Persistent Longing Allison Gray Read more from our Fellows and learn in an Age Psychological.” This book entails New Testament/Early Christian Literature what they hope to accomplish during their year a history and rethinking of the renowned Sean Hannan by visiting https://divinity.uchicago.edu/ 1956 book When Prophecy Fails by social History of Christianity marty-center-fellows. psychologists Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken and Stanley Schachter. Justin Howell Bible Loren D. Lybarger (PhD 2002), also joining us for a second year, is an associate professor in Andrew Langford the Department of Classics and World Religions Bible at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. He is Herbert Xunyu Lin completing research for his second book, titled, Theology Secularism and the Religious Return among Marc LiVecche Palestinians in Chicago: Transformation of Ethics Identity in Exile. Samuel Perry Susan Shapiro is Associate Professor, Sociology Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and Chair, Program in Religious Studies at the Charles S. Preston University of Massachusetts, Amherst. During History of Religions her year at the MMC she hopes to complete two Daniel Yingst books: “Freud and the Jewish Uncanny: the History of Christianity Modern Nation State and its Discontents” and “Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy.” Xiao-bo Yuan Anthropology

10 Circa Hinduism in India, the appeal of Evangelical Fortunately, Sightings wasn’t shy about Myriam Renaud, PhD Candidate in Theology Christianity to Hispanic Catholics, the murder touching upon lighter subjects, too, exploring at the University of Chicago Divinity School. of an anti-superstition activist in India, the Bible apps for mobile devices, the relationship A 2012–13 Junior Fellow in the Marty Center, growing numbers of Hispanic Muslims in the between Colbert and catechesis, the niche Ms. Reynaud co-organized the April 2014 U.S., the encounter between Mormons and market occupied by church pipe organs, the Marty Center conference, “God: Theological Native Americans, the question of who counts role of religious architecture, and “grace” and Accounts and Ethical Possibilities,” and as Catholic, the increasing numbers pursuing its various expressions in Anna Deveare Smith’s is looking forward to the work of editing the Church of England priesthood, the selling recent documentary theater. conference presentations into a book. of Scientology in super-bowl ads, and Muslim Subscribe and read archived articles at perspectives on Christmas. http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings.

Sightings: Divining Grace

race—a word of such command, and, yet, one seldom spoken today. Has the word fallen out of favor? Or has grace itself? And, if we aren’t talking about grace, does Gthat mean we are not living it? Do we prefer to keep our distance from matters (or reminders) of a fall from grace?

I sensed any number of such currents and already to name (and limit) crosscurrents in Anna Deavere Smith’s new grace as Christian. documentary theatre, Conversations on Grace, Is the question of grace, performed recently in Chicago’s Harris Theatre. contemplation on what I could also feel something larger at God wants one to be? work, from the show’s soulful opening to the There are many words in finale, in the notes played by cellist Joshua Islam to describe God’s Roman and vocalized by Smith. Smith’s acting self-disclosure. Grace? Hear it and Roman’s cello music create a pas de in the call to prayers. In voice. deux of twelve conversations about grace. Or, find the idea of grace in Each “conversation” is an artistic rendering Buddhist thought about the of Smith’s dialogues and interviews with symmetry between happiness scholars, religious figures (Christian, Muslim, and goodness, in being free Buddhist, Jewish), citizens, politicians, from suffering. singers, and academics. Or, as a philosopher asks: Smith’s twelve conversations on grace could one have grace without call to mind the Kharites, or Three Graces, of subscribing to a religion? Starting our own conversations about grace ancient Greek mythology whose plurality Keeping in mind the story of Job, the may serve to loosen the hardening boundaries signified the many ways in which beauty philosopher conceived of grace as remaining between those who call themselves religious manifests itself beyond our own individual intentionally open in the face of loss (material and those who call themselves spiritual-but-not- selves, bringing us into relation with others or spiritual)—indeed, a moment of openness religious (or “None”), redirecting fruitless and raising questions of reciprocity–moral, often marks recovery—and then moved to conversations about values and voting blocs ethical and aesthetic. They also bring to mind her association of this with the song “Is that (or political theatre) to the art of dwelling American philosopher and psychologist all there is,” a song is inspired by Thomas here together, in the polis, with grace. William James’s ideas on a pluralist universe. Mann’s nineteenth-century short story, Think of pluralism, writes James, as a “strung- “Disillusionment” (“…death, I know it already, Resources: along type, the type of continuity, contiguity death, that last disappointment!”). UChicagoNews. “Resident artists Anna Deavere or concatenation.” Grace is a string of lived Listening to Smith’s conversations I began Smith and Joshua Roman to stage ‘On Grace’.” experiences, observations, wishes, hopes, to think about author Terry Tempest Williams’ December 3, 2013. http://news.uchicago.edu/ fears, dreads, loves, reconciliations and meditation on beauty in a broken world as akin article/2013/12/03/resident-artists-anna- struggles that form neither an absolute whole to the workings of a mosaic: “a conversation deavere-smith-and-joshua-roman-stage-grace. nor unity. between what is broken.” To Smith’s question Snippets from Smith’s conversations about grace, one academic replied that James, William. A Pluralistic Universe. illuminate this plurality. In the words of one communities shy away from talk of beauty CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, religious leader, and recalling the I-Thou of the (in museums and in universities). But grace as 1908/2011. Jewish thinker, Martin Buber, grace unfolds beauty finds its place in justice and hope, Miller, Adam et al. Speculative Grace: Bruno in “relations with others.” That is, relations are twisting itself around other inspiring manifes­ Latour and Object-Oriented Theology. First pieces of others already in us. A whole heart tations of “non-selfing” ways. Grace could, edition. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. is a heart in pieces. we imagine, disarm violence or reconcile New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. Another religious leader finds that grace injustices; when Smith asked a politician about is not something one possesses but rather how grace, he recalled a police chief who had Williams, Terry Tempest. Finding Beauty God works through us. And, for yet another recently apologized for the treatment by police in a Broken World. New York: Vintage leader, to inquire into grace in this way is officers of civil rights activists in Montgomery Books, 2008. decades ago. We can ask ourselves what it means to tell Author, Betty M. Bayer, is Professor of of grace or find grace in a world where conflicts Women’s Studies at Hobart and William are not local, as one Rabbi put it. To think Smith College. Recent publications include “We can ask ourselves what of grace as a pluralistic universe may prove “Enchantment in an age of occupy” (2012, useful. Also useful—to explore the contrast Women’s Studies Quarterly). She is working it means to tell of grace or between grace in William James’ notion on a monograph: Revelation or Revolution? find grace in a world where of “more” and our “union with it,” and grace Cognitive Dissonance and Persistent Longing as an immanence visible in the here and now, in an Age Psychological. conflicts are not local …” composing us whether we talk directly about it or not (see Miller below).

Fall/Winter 2014 | 11 Dean of Students Report

This Fall, the Divinity Convocations PhD Patricia Ann Duncan Prizes and Fellowships School enrolled Joseph Nathaniel Ballan “Novel Hermeneutics: “Infinite Ambiguity: Gospel Exegesis in the 93 entering degree Winter 2014 Foreign Language and Elements of Vladimir Pseudo-Clementine Area Studies Fellowship MA candidates: 53 MA, Jankelevitch’s Philosophy Homilies” Summer 2014 Elizabeth Kendig 12 AMRS, 10 MDiv, of Religion” Clara Hope Mitchell Jenae Marissa Gurley and 18 PhD. Tarick Fathi Elgendy Therese Allen Nelson Elizabeth Anne Sartell Vincent Matthew Evener “Power, Complicity, and Drew J. Strait Yonatan Tzvi Shemesh “’Enemies of the Cross’: Resistance: Rereading “The Sarah Violet Zager College Graduates Suffering, Salvation, and Powers” with Karl Barth Spring 2014 in Religious Studies Truth in Sixteenth-Century and Michel Foucault Academic Year Religious Controversy” MDiv Hassan Shakeel Awaisi Four students completed Adrian Nicolae Guiu Leah Marie Boyd Marielle Burr Harrison fourth-year BA papers in Alexander Keith Rocklin “Reading Scripture, Brandon Marshall Cook Mary Ellen Jebbia Religious Studies this year. “Religion under Contract: Unifying Creation: Paul Edward Goodenough Andrew Dresden Kerr The BA paper preceptor for The Regulation of Religion Becoming the Officina Eleanor Margaret Kahn Chime Chodon Lama the year was Larisa Reznik. and the Making of Hinduism Omnium in John Scottus Alexandra Nicole McCauslin Viraj Patel They and their topics are in Colonial Trinidad” Eriugena’s Periphyseon” Steven Michael Grafton Philp Malini K. Singh (advisers’ names follow Matthew Craig Richards in brackets): Joseph Edward Steineger IV Alexs Delaney Thompson Walter Joseph Thorne Nicholson Center for “The Naturally Implanted “Rereading al-Tabari: Elijah Robert Zehyoue British Studies: Nicholson Hilary Clifford, “No Man Knowledge of God’s Towards a Narratological Graduation Fellowship Knows my History: Strategy MA Existence: Two 13th Century Interpretation of Philippa Rose Koch and Authority in Mormon Susan Melissa Balding Scholastic Interpretations the History” Women’s History.” (Brekus) Jonathan Lawrence Brent of John of Damascus and Charlotte W. Newcombe Russell Stephen Burk Anselm of Bec” Autumn 2013 Doctoral Dissertation Rachel Gittelman, “Ryan Erin Hillary Clark MA Fellowship and Cooper: American, Stephen Paul Durchslag Summer 2014 Jennifer Signa Paulson Catholic Progressives and Michele Mosser Ferris Philippa Rose Koch Kristin Nicole Pomykala their Denouncement of Hannah Gray Glasson MDiv Justin Nathaniel Smolin Contraception (1916– Sarah Marie Glynn Inter-University Center Olivia Bustion Andrew Michael Soleim 1930).” (Evans) Sarah Heiden Gomer for Japanese Studies Erin Margaret McCarthy Stephen Williams John Theodore Good Supplemental Grant Jason Quino McCreery, Kathryn Michelle Gulleen Paride Stortini MA PhD “Compassion, Wrath, and Randolph Keith Gunn Ahmed Arafat Elizabeth Sweeney Block Hermeneutics: Exploring Diane Elizabeth Hall Chicago Center for Christopher Scott Crawford “The Virtue of Conscience: the Nature of Wrath in the Nathan Jeffrey Hardy Jewish Studies Andrew Carl Kunze Valuing the Labor of the Buddhist Tantras and Jason D. Hitchcock Jessica Hope Andruss Femia Lukose Maroor Moral Life” Tibetan Hagiographies.” Lee Douglas Hoffer Alexandra Kathryn Zirkle Adam Murray O’Brien (Wedemeyer) Cody Charles Jones Lubomir Martin Ondrasek Kelly Leigh Brotzman Jonathan David Majhanovich William Rainey Harper Christopher Armando “Experience and Aenea Raskin, “Inter-Class Antonio Musto Dissertation Fellowship Rodrigues Unseth Theological Ethics: Interactions in the Timothy William O’Brien, S.J. Anthony Weiss A Schleirmacherian Joshua Andrew Connor Mahabharata and Darcie Marilyn Price-Wallace Jeffrey Scott Wilson, Jr. Investigation and Proposal” Ramayana.” (Doniger) Leah Michelle Richmond Mellon Humanities Karl Thomas Schmid PhD Rana Choi Dissertation Fellowship Sara Jo Swiatek Emanuelle Neuman Burton “Erich Auerbach and Sean Michael Hannan Andrew Sword “Fantasy and Responsibil- His Interlocutors: A Jamila Thomas ity: Phronesis and Ethical Comparison of Literary Provost Dissertation Laura Toth Meaning-Making in the Critical Methodologies” Fellowship Hannah Nicole VanVels Chronicles of Narnia” Jeremy Gantz Morse Philosophy E. Walker Matthew Richard Petrusek H. Thomas Heneghan Weiler “Catholic Social Ethics Fuerstenberg Fellowship Thomas Edward Ian Whittaker and the (In)vulnerability Cornelia Wolf Wilson Jessica Hope Andruss of Human Dignity” Haniya Yameen Dov Natan Lerner Ori Werdiger Ezra Blaustein

Tikva Fryer-Kensky Memorial Prize Liane Marquis

John Gray Rhind Award Leah Marie Boyd Steven Michael Grafton Philp

The Milo P. Jewett Prize Steven Michael Grafton Philp

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he Divinity School benefits from the generous support of alumni, friends, and organizations. The Dean, the faculty, and the students of the Divinity School extend their sincere thanks to all T who contributed cash gifts during the 2013–2014 fiscal year.(July 1, 2013–June 30, 2014) The Dean’s Circle Shirley Jackson Eri B. Hulbert Fellows Patricia E. Kauffman Midway Club $25,000 and above Case Fellows $1,000–$2,499 Ralph Keen $500–$999 $5,000–$9,999 Wesley A. Kort Aon Foundation Abbott Laboratories Cherie W. Acierno Mary Jean Kraybill Robert L. Berner, Jr. and Stephen S. Bowen Employee Giving Campaign Alan B. Anderson and Lincoln Financial Advisors Sheila R. Berner The Field Foundation Basil Ross E. Aden Denise M. Anderson David W. Maher and Estate of Daniel T. Carroll of Illinois, Inc. Carl H. Boyer and Jeanne Bishop Jill C. Maher John C. Colman and Linda Lee Nelson Mary A. Boyer Lisa G. Cahill and James J. McClure, Jr. and Jane B. Colman Richard W. Shepro and John A. Bross and Lawrence R. Cahill Lynn P. McClure Divinity Students Association Lindsay E. Roberts Judy C. Bross Edwin T. Callahan III and Frank D. Minton Joan Feitler and Robert Feitler Frederick H. Stitt and Joseph F. Byrnes Dulcy E. Wolverton Margaret M. Mitchell Estate of John E. Gaus Suzanne B. Stitt Robert Wells Carton and Paul B. Duff and Janet Moore Lear Family Foundation Jean Carton Ann L. Osborn Rebecca Ruth Pallmeyer Norman Lear and Lyn Lear Shailer Mathews Chapin-May Foundation Carl Duane Evans and Dan P. McAdams Lilly Endowment Inc. $2,500–$4,999 of Illinois David H. Fong Peter J. Paris The Henry Luce Foundation Robert W. Crowe and Joleen M. Forrest Baptist Theological Union Emery A. Percell McDonald Agape Foundation Elizabeth R. Crowe Norman F. Gustaveson and Barbara Bierig and Bonnie L. Price and Alonzo McDonald Judith Van Herik and Nancy Gustaveson Jack R. Bierig Joseph L. Price II The Andrew W. Mellon James Culang Jr. Henry O. Hardy John I. Cadwallader John W. Reed Foundation Anthony H. DeJarnette Susan B. Johnson and Lisa A. Cavallari Charles M. Rich* Oliver Nicklin The Donnelley Foundation Dennis P. Johnson Stephen P. Durchslag Kikue Rich Marjorie Lindsay Reed Nina Donnelley and Werner H. Kelber and Alexandra C. Earle and Victoria Ries The Regenstein Foundation James R. Donnelley Mary A. Kelber David P. Earle Leona Z. Rosenberg Smart Family Foundation, Inc. Robert G. Donnelley Kent D. Kirby Barbara T. Fitzpatrick and Richard Alan Rosengarten Raymond Smart Victoria J. Dorgan Martin E. Marty and Thomas M. Fitzpatrick Raquel Rubin and Ralph H. Elliott Harriet Marty Lawrence R. Hamilton and Aryeh Rubin Ernest Cadman William Trent Foley Peter J. Mehl Ann Hicks Hamilton Aileen P. Schloerb and Colwell Fellows James L. Foorman and William E. Middleton and John B. Hillman and John M. Schloerb $10,000–$24,999 Margaret Foorman Barbra Hardy Linda H. Hillman Jean Schmeichel and Arthur B. Francis and W. Mark Miller-McLemore Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Paul C. Marengo and Waldemar Schmeichel Arlene Francis John C. Modschiedler and America, Inc. Joan P. Simmons Estate of Emaroy June Smith Carlson Gerdau Christa M. Modschiedler Patrick and Anna M. Scott R. Martin and R. Robert Speaks, Jr. The Getty Foundation Donald W. Musser Cudahy Fund Linda Martin Lynn Straus and Muller Davis M. Whitney Gilkey Samuel C. Pearson, Jr. and Richard D. Cudahy and Daniel R. Murray Jeffica L. Toulouse and Chester Gillis Mary Alice Clay Pearson Janet Cudahy Wayne Parman Mark G. Toulouse Joan B. Gottschall Paul L. Raczynski Gildan Robert K. Parsons and David Jon Van Houten and David P. Grandstrand and T. R. Rice Nuveen Benevolent Trust Victoria J. Herget Kim Marie Olthoff Karen Grandstrand Robert L. Simpson John S. Nuveen Charlene Posner Joan W. Ward Larry L. Greenfield David J. Smith Robert G. Schloerb and Erroll F. Rhodes Barbara E. Williamson and Fritz Guy Huston C. Smith and Mary W. Schloerb Phyllis R. Tessieri and Clark M. Williamson Ronne B. Hartfield and Eleanor K. Smith Richard P. Strubel and John E. Tessieri Jr. Natalee C. Yeager and Robert B. Hartfield TCF Foundation Ella Strubel Margaret McCurry and Iver F. Yeager Elizabeth A. Hopp-Peters Roderick J. Wagner Jeanne M. Sullivan Stanley Tigerman and Kurt Peters Ruth J. Watson Marian K. Towne and Thomas J. Tropp Jewish Communal Fund Donald R. Weisbaker Edgar A. Towne

Fall/Winter 2014 | 13 Scholars Club Keiren Maris O’Kelly Philip L. Blackwell and Alan C. Embree Wilbur K. Huck $250–$499 Park Avenue Synagogue Sarah L. Blackwell Mark J. Englund-Krieger James R. Huyck Douglas L. Petersen and Bernard R. Bonnot S. Bernhard Erling Henry Idema III Peter B. Andres Anne C. Petersen Larry D. Bouchard Ronald L. Eslinger Fujio Ikado and Toshiko Ikado Richard P. Baepler Marion Phillips Erin K. Bouman and John P. Ferre and Hans-Joachim R. Irmer David Bawden and Joseph W. Pickle, Jr. Tim Bouman Gweneth A. Dunleavy Charles S. Jacobs Jan E. Bawden Jill Raitt Marjorie E. Bowerman John H. Fish* William C. James Sara F. Bigger and Michael B. Raschko Mary M. Boyvey John Z. Flack and Charles L. Johnson Kenneth S. Bigger Susan A. Ross and James M. Brandt Clare K. Buckley Pamela D. Jones William O. Breedlove II and William P. George William Brewster Jr. and Jaime R. Polson and Barbara B. Kaiser Elizabeth A. Breedlove Diane M. Ruggiero Arlene B. Brewster David Z. Flanagin Teruo Kawata Walter L. Brenneman, Jr. David A. Schattschneider Brian M. Britt and William C. French G. Richard Kern William F. Brosend II Winifred Eleanor Scott Jessica Meltsner Jonathan A. Friesen Michael J. Kessler Frank Burch Brown Barbara Pitkin and Andrew H. Bro Warren G. Frisina and Phillip D. Kimble Thomas A. Byrnes and Brent W. Sockness Mark S. Brocker and Patricia M. Cooper Takeshi Kimura and Carol J. Rigmark James E. Spicer and Donna Brocker Sally J. Frostic Marianne Kimura Maura Campanelli Shirley J. Spicer Jesse M. Brown Bartlett W. Gage Alexander S. Kindred Church of The Incarnation G. Ralph Strohl William C. Brown and Eugene V. Gallagher Robert E. Koenig Episcopal Robert A. Super Patricia L. Brown Paul Gangsei Carl E. Krieg Elliot J. Cosgrove Albert M. Tannler Preston M. Browning, Jr. Volney P. Gay and James R. Lackenmier Kristine A. Culp Priscilla J. Trubin John M. Buchanan and Barbara B. Gay James W. Lewis Porter G. Dawson George A. Weckman Sue K. Buchanan Heidi M. Gehman and Laura S. Lieber William D. Dean Jay D. Wexler and William J. Buckley Kelton Cobb Armin H. Limper and Frederick M. Denny Karen A. Tokos Donald P. Burgo Mary J. Gerhart Shirley C. Limper Jeffrey E. Doane Robert K. Wilson-Black and Hugh W. Burtner Edmund T. Gilday Lois G. Livezey Michael C. Dodge Juli B. Wilson-Black Charles T. Buzek Gerald W. Gillette Karl W. Luckert John L. Dreibelbis and Elyse A. Nelson Winger and Susan T. Cabot G. Wayne Glick Donald N. MacPherson Patricia A. Dreibelbis Stewart L. Winger Kathleen A. Cahalan Daniel R. Gold and Leslie Maitland and Elmore Giles, Jr. Ralph C. Wood, Jr. and Rosemary P. Carbine and Ann G. Gold Daniel J. Werner Roger Gilmore Suzanne C. Wood Jason A. Carbine Jonathan C. Gold Teresa A. Maltby Donald E. Gowan David W. Carpenter and Joanna F. Goodin Phyllis G. Martin Stanislaus Grabarek Century Club Eileen K. Carpenter Gerald J. Gregg D. David Maxfield George P. Guthrie $100–$249 David C. Casto John E. Groh Linda C. McClain and Charles S. Hallisey John L. Cella, Jr. and Janet V. Gunn James E. Fleming Joshua D. Heikkila Samuel L. Adams Laura Prail Robert D. Haak Larry A. McClellan Susan E. Hill Phyllis D. Airhart Warren O. Chain Roger D. Haight Gerald P. McKenny Bryan V. Hillis Catherine L. Albanese Stephen T. Chan Laurel E. Hallman Sarah L. McKnight John O. Hodges and Larry J. Alderink J. Harley Chapman, Jr. and Charles H. Hambrick Douglas B. Menuez Carolyn R. Hodges Catherine Allen and Jean B. Chapman Gary L. Harbaugh Woodrow S. Mertens Norman S. Johnson and William H. Allen Rolf H. Charlston J. A. Harrill Franz A. Metcalf Meredith K. Ray Robert E. Alvis Chicago Network for Ted W. Harrison Alan L. Miller Arthur S. Kahn Edward W. Amend Justice & Peace Roger D. Hatch and Dale Miller Jr. Carolyn C. Kinsley David E. Anderman Christopher Chou Joyce A. Baugh Robert G. Moore III and Daniel G. Kuckuck Ann L. Anderson and Richard N. Chrisman John A. Helgeland Heather L. Krajewski Matthew R. Lawrence Douglas E. Anderson Kathleen M. Clairmont and Benjamin R. Helphand Ronney B. Mourad and Richard W. Lee Philip A. Anderson, Jr. Norman W. Clairmont John L. Hendricks Emily J. Kuo Leo D. Lefebure Rebecca R. Anderson John B. Cobb, Jr. Mary C. Henry Herbert J. Murray, Jr.* Charles H. Long and Wendy L. Anderson Maria del Rosario Conde- Stewart W. Herman III Jennifer L. Nagel and Alice F. Long Maria A. Antonaccio Johanek T. Patrick Hill Jane E. McBride K. B. Lyon Yaakov Ariel Lee A. Crawford Katherine E. Hines-Shah Thomas A. Nairn William Madges Philip R. Bane William R. Crockett and Jayesh S. Hines-Shah Randolph A. Nelson Stephanie A. Paulsell and Paula S. Barker Steve J. Crump Stephen A. Hirby and Douglas R. Norell Kevin J. Madigan Russell J. Becker Keith A. Davis Patricia S. Hirby Robert C. Nygaard-Kispert Lois E. Malcolm Peter T. Beckman, Jr. and Paul Davis Ann P. Hoffman and Marjorie D. Palmer and Anthony M. Mallerdino Lydia V. Beckman Richard E. Denison, Jr. Irwin Z. Hoffman William E. Palmer Clair E. Mesick Francisco J. Benzoni and Jay P. Dolan Karina M. Hogan Aristotle Papanikolaou James R. Monroe, Jr. Kimberly Wade-Benzoni George A. Drake Michael S. Hogue David B. Parke Sarah K. Moore Thomas C. Berg and Gary L. Ebersole Glenn S. Holland Robert J. Parker, Jr. and Kenneth R. Muse Maureen K. Berg Otis C. Edwards, Jr. William G. Horton Sarah E. Taylor Susan Nash Marvin L. Bergman Gracia F. Ellwood and Geoffrey F. Hoy and Caroline T. Paterson Scott D. Nielsen Clyde A. Black and Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. Dorothea Hoy Nicholas A. Patricca Schubert M. Ogden Carol L. Black

14 Circa John H. Patton Swift Hall Club George E. Gilbert and Hubert G. Locke Michael Sohn Laurie L. Patton $1–$99 Greta Gilbert Jerome H. Long Eric R. Sorensen and W. Creighton Peden Andrew C. Gill and Loren D. Lybarger Maureen Lasko Roger R. Adams Nadine S. Pence Jennifer Gill Steven M. Malone and Garry G. Sparks Jr. and LeRoy H. Aden Peiying Peng and James Nelson Gingerich and Kathleen Malone April J. Lewton Brenda E. Aghahowa Behfar Bastani-Booshehri Barbara Nelson Gingerich Jesse D. Mann Samuel H. Speers and Gillian W. Ahlgren Anna L. Peterson Norman J. Girardot Harvey J. Markowitz Lisa C. Brawley Nancy D. Arnison Joseph S. Pettit and Beth Glazier-McDonald Adrienne E. Martin Peyton W. Stafford Homer U. Ashby, Jr. and Elizabeth Guonjian Thandiwe A. Gobledale Dana B. Martin Richard E. Starkey Patricia R. Ashby Edward A. Phillips, Jr. Judith M. Godfrey Guy V. Martin and Murray W. Stein Davin L. Auble G. Philip Points and Dale C. Goldsmith Marilyn J. Martin Francis E. Steiner Jill F. Auger and Pierre F. Auger Loris Points James C. Goodloe IV Thomas R. Mason Kristin D. Steinmetz and Dorlan C. Bales Paul C. Pribbenow and Nicole S. Grant and Mark C. Mattes Mathew N. Schmalz Bank of America Foundation Abigail Crampton Todd A. Yonkman John P. McCarthy Michael K. Stone Erin Ann Barbato Sullivan Pribbenow James M. Green Madison R. McClendon Ronald A. Stover John D. Barbour Elena G. Procario-Foley Timothy J. Griffin Park McGinty Charles R. Strain and Vern E. Barnet Nancy Pry and Arthur M. Pry Marshall C. Grigsby Alexander R. McLean Dianne Hanau-Strain Melanie S. Barrett Thomas H. Quigley, Jr. and L. Eugene Groves David G. Mesenbring Jonathan N. Strom Wendell C. Beane Jane H. Quigley William D. Hall David H. Messner Walter M. Stuhr and Theodore F. Berg Kenneth F. Ripple Sandra A. Ham Maria J. Metzler Barbara Jean Stuhr Fred Berthold Jr. and Bernice Rodgerson James S. Hamre Jeffrey F. Meyer Mary J. Sturm Laura B. Berthold Clark N. Ross Lowell K. Handy Lauree H. Meyer Rex J. 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Roh James O. Yerkes and Laura J. Torgerson and David G. Vellenga Sung Chun Kim Edgar P. Roosa Ruth L. Yerkes Timothy Q. Donaghy W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fred L. Kirschenmann Steven D. Sacks Stanley J. Ziobro II John D. Downs and Joanne P. Waghorne and Lloyd R. Kittlaus T. H. Sanks Ninia Downs William R. Waghorne Donald S. Klinefelter Benjamin E. Sax James R. Driver James D. Ward Andrew W. Kneier and Richard L. Schaper Kerry E. Waller and *Deceased Richard S. Weiss Katherine A. Kneier Anthony F. Scheurich Benjamin J. Dueholm J. H. Wells John A. Knight Jr. J. Peter Schineller Dennis C. Duling Richard W. Werner Emily J. Knox John J. Schmitt Cornelius J. Dyck* Donald H. Wheat Karen E. Knutson John A. Schroedel IV Kathryn N. Elledge Jay A. Wilcoxen and Paul Kollman Graham M. Schweig W. Douglas Ensminger Patricia Wilcoxen Jennifer H. Kottler Edgar P. Senne Lenore A. Erickson Courtney S. Wilder David J. Kuby Susan N. Shankman H. Joan Evans Charles A. Wilson Krista M. Kutz and Richard E. Sherrell Ian S. Evison R. A. Winstead Craig Scanlon Randi Sider-Rose Steven Feldman Lawrence E. Witmer Judith A. Lawrence Ariel C. Silver Anne E. Ford Donald Bruce Woll E. Thomas Lawson Patricia H. Sime Jon W. Foreman and Ariana K. Wolynec-Werner Jonathan S. Leach Stephen A. Simmons Rebecca Foreman Walter E. Wyman, Jr. Erika A. Linden Susan M. Simonaitis Robert E. Frederick Lois F. Yatzeck Jeffrey H. Lindgren Trygve R. Skarsten Mark A. Freedman Ausrele J. Liulevicius and Andria N. Skornik Robert A. Gessert Arunas L. Liulevicius Rolland F. Smith Anna L. Gibbons

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Continued from page 8 of the same title (Beacon Press 2014). Lisa Bitel Fellows. Based on his symposium, the forum of the University of Southern California and is entitled, “A Disenchanted Exile: Secularism Glenn Peers (University of Texas at Austin) Jonathan H. Ebel (PhD 2004) of the University and the Islamic Revival among Second- and Rachel Fulton Brown (University of of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign responded to Generation Palestinian Immigrants in Chicago.” Chicago) responded. Plate’s contention that “religious history is Alain Epp-Weaver (MDiv 1999, PhD 2002) incomplete if it ignores the sensing body, and of the Mennonite Central Community, Louise February 2014 RCWF presented two chapters the seemingly trivial things it confronts.” Cainkar (Marquette University) and Naomi from Richard Foltz’s book, Religions of Iran: Davidson (University of Ottawa), responding. From Prehistory to the Present (Oneworld April 2014 2013). The featured chapters were “Mithra and “Community Conflict and Collective Memory June 2014 In June, the forum presented the Mithraism” and “Two Kurdish Sects: The Yezidis in the Late Medieval Parish Church,” was work of 2013–2014 Marty Center Senior Fellow, and the Yaresan”; they represented collectively presented by Kristi Woodward Bain, who asked Betty M. Bayer (Hobart & William Smith Colleges); Foltz’s effort to study the diversity of Iranian about the role of conflict in the “the formation the forum presentation is based on her religious history through “Pool Theory.” Carlo of community identity.” Bain is an advanced symposium, “Endings Without End: When G. Cereti of Sapienza, University of Rome, and PhD student in religious studies at Northwestern Prophecy Fails and the Rise of New Age Eszter Spät of Central European University University. The respondents were John Craig Spirituality and Cognitive Dissonance.” responded; Foltz himself is professor and (Simon Fraser University) and Katherine French director of the Centre for Iranian Studies at (University of Michigan). July-August 2014 And finally, Seth Perry (PhD Concordia University (Canada). 2013); Princeton University) wrote on patriotic May 2014 May’s forum featured the work of American editions of the Bible. March 2014 S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate (Hamilton Loren D. Lybarger (PhD 2002) one of the two College) offered “A History of Religion in 5 ½ 2013–2014 Martin Marty Center Senior Objects”—an essay adapted from his new book

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