CIRCA News from the University of Chicago Divinity School

A CENTURY AGO, SHAILER MATHEWS AVERRED THAT “RELIGION IS THE EXPERIMENT by which we test the immortality of our souls.” A member of the Divinity School faculty and a Dean for over twenty years, Mathews was one of the great expositors of the social gospel, its tireless advocate in innumerable venues around the nation. Through this work Mathews sought to articulate a conception of religion that reflected and extended, rather than opposed, the development of scientific methodologies.

Yet Mathews also did not wish religion to ence. Religion according to Mathews is not, be merely one in an increasingly lengthen- with all due respect to Mircea Eliade, an irre- ing list of exemplars of cultural expression. ducible human phenomenon. It is, rather, one Thus he both insisted on the standard of of the ways–for Mathews, the best way–by disinterested reason in assessing faith and Letter which we attempt to describe and act upon dogma, and situated religion at the occupa- our most central convictions about meaning tional center of all statements of what is of and value. In this Mathews endorses the motto most enduring value. His vision promoted of the sixteenth-century Reformations of both utterly open inquiry into the received from the Christianity regarding the confusion of reli- truth of religion, and the conviction that no gious practice with its object. Yet it was also full articulation of our enduring humanity the case that to avoid this confusion was to could be realized without it. Dean affirm the central participation of religious In our own new century, Mathews’ defini- thought in what Alfred North Whitehead tion remains pertinent for at least two reasons. termed “the adventure of ideas.” For Mathews First, Mathews made the bold choice to define himself, this meant religion’s role as a central “religion”, yet he did so as an apologist for bulwark of democracy and civil society; but the Christian tradition. His first word is not it is in principle a very broadly based con- “Christianity”, even as his final phrase, “the nection with not only politics but history, immortality of our souls”, underscores that philosophy, and art. his own American Baptist heritage was very No great idea, especially one so strikingly near at hand as he wrote. His formulation formulated, is a stranger to controversy. Mathews implies that any articulation of religion must labored throughout his public life to satisfy embrace simultaneously the daunting task both the concerns of his American Baptist of generalization and its own location in a brethren, who feared that he had forsaken the particular circumstance. The challenge then tradition and its dogmatic trappings, and a becomes the establishment of genuine com- world of emerging social scientific thought plementarity between the general and the that had vitally informed his work yet seemed specific. Each is utterly crucial, and each increasingly indifferent to religion. It required requires the other. Mathews recognized that every bit of Mathews’ intellectual and rhetor- the religions as a cohort require some asser- ical skills to maintain the balance of his artic- tion of collective identity if their nature and ulation. History teaches that he was adroit in role in the world are to be understood. Yet No great idea, especially ways that others who shared his vision were he also recognized that, absent specification, one so strikingly formulated, not. His example and those of his contem- the assertion would lack the existential pull poraries underscore a set of challenges now that marks religious claims on humanity. is a stranger to controversy. commonly recognized by religious leaders In this Mathews’ theology anticipates such in a world where misunderstanding, and later articulations as theologian Paul Tillich’s ultimately disorientation, threaten both description of religion as expressive of an articulation of “ultimate concern”. With it articulation and practice. “ultimate concern,” and philosopher Emmanuel came the important affirmation that reli- But Mathews’ own footing was sure, and Levinas’ characterization of religion’s capacity gion transcends its social and historical he can serve as guide as well as harbinger as to return our gaze. Tillich and Levinas each moment, and points to the part of us that we go forward, regardless of our own partic- wrote out of a specific religious tradition and, transcends our own time and place. ular vantage on religion and the religions. as such, their characterizations of religious At the same time that he affirms transcen- For us, the landscape may seem not only experience necessarily differ; yet, their respec- dence, Mathews acknowledges in his uses of different but more difficult than it was for tive efforts reflect a common concern to the words “experiment” and “test” that reli- Mathews: Our society is acutely aware of articulate the nature of religion that Mathews gion is a human effort. It is a hypothesis about religion’s force in contemporary life, and would have appreciated and applauded. the place of divinity in our midst. It was for the challenge has less to do with awakening To suggest that religions are about “the Mathews a profound mistake to confuse any those who slumber, and more with clarify- immortality of our souls” was Mathews’ religion with its object of devotion or rever- Continued on page 5

AUTUMN 2006 | NUMBER 26 Faculty News and Notes

Visiting Faculty his fall, the Divinity School welcomes one new full-time Two new visiting faculty join us this aca- faculty member, one new associated faculty member, and demic year. Yairah Amit will be Visiting Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, and Dalit Rom- two visiting faculty members to its fold. For online faculty Shiloni will be Visiting Assistant Professor T of Hebrew Bible. news updates, please see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/whatsnew/news Yairah Amit .html. To access online faculty profiles, which include biographies, (M.A., Hebrew photographs, and contact information for each faculty member, please University; Ph.D., Tel Aviv University) see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/index.html. emphasizes critical approaches to the study of the Hebrew Appointments Bible. She is especially interested in aspects of story, history, ide- ology, and editing, and in the combination Fox Appointed interest in theoretical issues in the History of of these four in the biblical text. Starting Assistant Professor of the Religions, and is also working on a manuscript History of Religions comparing Euro-american and Southeast Asian from these different viewpoints, she ana- mass media in their respective articulations lyzes the short textual unit as much as whole biblical books. Richard Fox became of religion, violence and the war on terror. Assistant Professor of Dalit Rom-Shiloni the History of Reli- (Ph.D., Hebrew gions at the Divinity New Associated Faculty School, effective July University of Jeru- 1, 2006. Kathleen Neils Conzen, Professor in salem, Israel) was He comes to the History, focuses on the social and political trained in biblical Divinity School from history of the United States in the nine- studies and Ancient Williams College teenth century, with a special interest in Semitic languages, in Williamstown, issues of immigration, ethnicity, religion, with an emphasis on Massachusetts, where he was Visiting Assis- western settlement, and urban develop- epigraphy and pale- tant Professor of Religion in the Religion ment. She teaches courses and seminars on ography of North- Department. American urban history, nineteenth-century West Semitic dialects. Her academic inter- Fox received his M.A. and Ph.D. from social history, the peopling of the U.S., ests are Judean theology and ideology of the the School of Oriental and African Studies, western and rural history, and nineteenth- sixth century BCE, specifically concepts of London. His primary research and teaching century political culture. Current projects God in times of national crisis, ideology of interests lie in the historical and ethnographic include books on nineteenth-century German- war, and ideological conflicts over concepts study of South and Southeast Asian religions, American efforts to develop and defend a of exile. She teaches courses on Israelite/ with a special emphasis on Indonesia and the theory of pluralistic democratic nationalism Judean theology and ideology of the pre- Malay region. His current research focuses and on German peasant settlement in the exilic and exilic eras, biblical historiography, specifically on the mediation of religion in frontier Midwest, and a work-in-progress prophetic literature, and inner-biblical contemporary Bali through texts, television, on America’s diasporic German Catholic interpretation as a key to the prophetic and theatrical performance. He has a strong milieu. message and literature.

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Arnold, Smith Win Top AAR for the category Book Awards of Constructive - Reflective Studies, is his first book. Smith University of is a historian of reli- Chicago faculty gion whose research have won two of has focused on such the three awards wide-ranging sub- given for best books jects as ritual theory, of the year by the Hellenistic religions, American Academy nineteenth-century of Religion, an Maori cults, and the notorious events of association of some Jonestown, Guyana. His book Relating 10,000 scholars Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion devoted to the (2004) was honored in the AAR category academic study of religion. The Awards for for Analytical-Descriptive Studies. Excellence in Religion, among the most The awards will esteemed honors given to scholars of religion, be presented at the have been given this year to Dan Arnold, American Academy Assistant Professor of the Philosophy of Reli- of Religion’s annual gion in the Divinity School, and Jonathan French Give Meltzer meeting on Saturday, Z. Smith, the Robert O. Anderson Distin- High Academic Honor November 18 in guished Service Professor in the Humanities Washington, D.C. and the Divinity School. The awards recog- Françoise Meltzer, Mabel Greene Myers Pro- For more informa- nize new scholarly fessor of Romance Languages and Literatures, tion, visit http://www publications that Comparative Literature, and the Divinity .aarweb.org. make significant School, has been named by the French gov- contributions to the ernment Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes study of religion, Marty Speaks at ACLS Académiques (Knight in the Order of the honoring books Academic Palms). “of distinctive origi- Martin E. Marty, Fairfax The consul general of France pre- nality, intelligence, M. Cone Distinguished sented the award during a Monday, creativity and Service Professor Emeri- May 1, 2006, ceremony in the Tea importance, books tus, delivered the Room of the Social Science Research that affect decisively Charles Homer Homer Building. how religion is examined, understood and Haskins lecture on May The honor is the highest distinction interpreted.” 12, 2006, at the Ameri- in France for academics and artists Arnold, a scholar of Indian and Buddhist can Council of Learned and is given to “those who have philosophy, earned his doctorate at the Uni- Societies. Charles Homer contributed to the development of versity of Chicago in 2002. Buddhists, Brah- Haskins was the first arts, letters and sciences or those mins and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Chairman of the ACLS, who have distinguished themselves Philosophy of Religion (2005), selected by the from 1920 to 1926. within the university.”

Fishbane Receives Jewish Cultural Achievement Award

The National Foundation for Jewish Culture award was conferred at a ceremony in New (NFJC), a leading advocate for Jewish cultural York City on Sunday, June 4, 2005, at the creativity and preservation in America, recently Center for Jewish History. honored Professor Michael Fishbane, Nathan Professor Fishbane’s life and work will Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies in also be the subject of an article in the long- the Divinity School. awaited second edition of the Encyclopedia Each year the Foundation acknowledges Judaica, published by the Macmillan Com- three laureates for their lifetime achievements. pany and slated for publication in December The award is the highest honor the American 2006. The Encyclopedia, which first appeared Jewish community has to offer its scholars in 1971–1972, is considered a standard work for their contribution to the understanding on Judaism, with articles on many aspects of Jewish culture in the American context. of Jewish life and faith. Zev Garber’s article The Foundation honored Fishbane in 2006 highlights Professor Fishbane’s work on for his contributions to the study of biblical literary themes in the Hebrew Bible and narrative, inner-biblical Midrash, hermeneu- his contributions to hermeneutics, as well tics, and rabbinic myth-making. as his role as editor-in-chief of the Jewish The Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards Publication Society Bible Commentary in Scholarship have recognized sustained (for Prophets and Writings). excellence and outstanding contribution to the fields of Jewish Studies since 1994. The

AUTUMN 2006 | 3 Faculty News and Notes

Tanner Named Dorothy English Language and Literature, and the laureate; a member of the French Senate, Grant Maclear Professor Committee on Social Thought at the Uni- and leading scientists and scholars from versity of Chicago, was honored for his across the nation. Fellows and Foreign Hon- Kathryn Tanner, scholarly contributions to the fields of East orary Members are nominated and elected Professor in the Asian studies, religion, and literature; and to the Academy by current members. A Divinity School, is for his service to the academy, which includes broad-based membership, comprising scholars now the Dorothy work to promote the study of East Asia in and practitioners from mathematics, physics, Grant Maclear undergraduate institutions. Yu’s nomination biological sciences, social sciences, humanities Professor. Tanner’s fell under the category of “Persons of promi- and the arts, public affairs and business, gives research involves nence associated with research universities the Academy a unique capacity to conduct constructive whose research relates to a curriculum or a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and Christian theology program emphasis at Wittenberg.” His work public policy research. in the Protestant with organizations such as AsiaNetwork tradition, with the (a consortium of colleges teaching Asian Klauck Named Naomi intent of address- studies) was important in his selection. Shenstone Donnelley Professor ing contemporary Wittenberg, a four-year liberal arts college, challenges to belief through the creative use has a strong East Asian studies program, and Hans-Josef Klauck, Professor in the Divinity of both the history of Christian thought and on April 20, 2006, Yu offered a colloquium School and New Testament and Early such interdisciplinary methods as critical, address there on Journey to the West. Yu was Christian Literature in the Division of the social, and feminist theory. On Thursday, nominated for this honorary degree by Jennifer Humanities, is now the Naomi Shenstone May 4, she gave a lecture in Swift Hall titled Oldstone-Moore, a former advisee of Yu, and Donnelley Professor. “Reproduction at a Distance: Women, Trans- now Associate Professor of Religion and East Klauck, an or- national Migration, and Religious De-tradi- Asian Studies and Director of East Asian dained Franciscan tioning” to inaugurate this new chair. Studies at Wittenberg University. priest, researches Professor Yu is teaching Introduction to the New Testament Yu Receives Honorary Degree Chinese Religions in the Fall. and early Christian literature. His inter- Anthony C. Yu, Murrin Elected Fellow ests have focused Carl Darling Buck of American Academy of on the parables Distinguished of Jesus, Paul’s Service Professor Arts and Sciences Corinthian corre- Emeritus in the spondence, and Divinity School, Michael Murrin, David B. and Clara E. the Johannine was presented Stern Professor in Humanities and Professor letters. In addi- with the honorary of Religion and Literature at the Divinity tion, he has specialized in the religious and School, was elected a Fellow of the Ameri- degree of Doctor social history of the Greco-Roman world as can Academy of Arts and Sciences in May, of Humane Let- a background to New Testament studies. 2006. Among the 175 new Fellows and 20 ters at the 2006 Professor Klauck’s inaugural lecture as new Foreign Honorary Members are two commencement the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor, former presidents of the United States; the of Wittenberg University in Springfield, entitled “Nature, Art, and Thought: Dio Chief Justice of the United States; a Nobel Chrysostom and the theologia tripertita,” Ohio. Yu, who also holds appointments in laureate; winners of the Pulitzer Prize in is scheduled for Thursday, October 12, at the Departments of Comparative Literature, poetry, drama, music, investigative report- 4:30 p.m. in Swift Lecture Hall. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, ing, and non-fiction; a former U.S. poet

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New Development Director history of Christianity before deciding to to seek specialized treatment for an aggres- pursue a career in development. While a sive form of cancer. Mary Jean student at the Divinity School, she worked Dean of Students Terri Owens said, Kraybill joined as an editorial assistant for the Journal of “Our community is saddened by this loss, the Divinity Religion and as the head cook for the and we are all in some way diminished School staff on Wednesday lunch kitchen team. when one who has shared our lives and July 1, 2006, “We are absolutely delighted to welcome work is gone from among us.” as Director of back an alumna who knows and loves the Noah Salomon, a Ph.D. student at the Development. School, and who brings to us outstanding Divinity School who knew Yoshio well, said Her extensive accomplishment in development and deep “Yoshio was a unique student, with goals experience as a familiarity with the workings of the Univer- that transcended academic work,” who had fundraiser, both sity,” commented Dean Rosengarten. “Mary come to Chicago through “a very interest- on and off cam- Jean is just a wonderful addition to the ing path that detoured through places as pus, includes, staff.” diverse as Iraq and corporate Singapore.” most recently her Per his wishes, Mr. Miyamae’s personal more than six years as Director of Develop- Yoshio Miyamae library will be donated to the Regenstein ment for the Humanities Division at the Library. University. Yoshio Miyamae, a Ph.D. student in Phi- The Divinity School will hold a memo- Mary Jean came to Chicago in 1980 to losophy of Religion, died over the summer. rial service during the Autumn Quarter for study at the Divinity School. She received Mr. Miyamae was in his third year of doc- the Divinity School community. Heartfelt her M.A. in 1981 and spent three more toral studies here. An international student condolences are extended to all those who years doing coursework in theology and from Japan, he had recently returned home knew and worked with Yoshio.

Tikva Frymer-Kensky 1943– 2006

Tikva Frymer- ization included Assyriology and Sumerology, of her death were a commentary on Ruth Kensky, biblical studies, Jewish studies, and women and a book on biblical theology. Professor at and religion. Her most recent works include In 2005 Professor Frymer-Kensky was the Divinity Reading the Women of the Bible, which named one of the Jewish Chicagoans of School, died received a Koret Jewish Book Award in the Year by The Chicago Jewish News and on Thursday, 2002 and a National Jewish Book Award in 2006 the Jewish Publication Society August 31, 2005, in 2003; In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, published a collection of her articles, at 12:30 p.m. Culture and the Biblical Transformation of “Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism,” Professor Frymer- Pagan Myth; and Motherprayer: The Pregnant as part of their Scholars of Distinction Kensky died at Woman’s Spiritual Companion. She was also series. She is the first woman to have her home, with her the English translator of From Jerusalem to work included in this series. husband Allan the Edge of Heaven by Ari Elon (Alma Dee, The funeral was held Sunday, September and children original Hebrew). In progress at the time 3rd at Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah Meira and Eitan at her side. The cause of in Wilmette. The shiva week was observed death was breast cancer. at the Frymer-Kensky home beginning Professor of Hebrew Bible and the His- The Divinity School will hold Sunday evening and extending through tory of Judaism in the Divinity School, a memorial service to honor Professor Friday, September 9th. also in the Law School and the Committees Frymer-Kensky on Thursday, Professor Frymer-Kensky is survived by on the Ancient Mediterranean World and her husband, Rabbi Allan Kensky, her son October 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Bond Jewish Studies, Professor Frymer-Kensky Eitan, and her daughter Meira. Meira is a joined the Divinity School faculty in 1995. Chapel. A reception will follow. Ph.D. candidate in biblical studies at the Tikva Frymer-Kensky’s areas of special- Divinity School.

The family has suggested the following funds for tzedakah in memory of Professor Frymer-Kensky —

The Tikva Frymer-Kensky Adult Education Fund | Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah, 3220 Big Tree Lane, Wilmette, Illinois 60091 The Kensky Family Grove | The Jewish National Fund, 60 Revere Drive, Suite 960, Northbrook, Illinois 60062 The Scholarship Fund | The University of Chicago Divinity School, 1025 East 58th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Rosengarten Continued from front page ing for those who misunderstand, willfully of this character—its essential centrality to of human wonder and magnificence as, or not. Within that general parameter, our thinking about what will most endure; to name two examples, our propensity to however, I see no better dicta than those and, through it all, the cultivation of an use the future tense in speaking, and our suggested by an especially clear-sighted pre- openness of mind about our own particular capacity to speak the language of love. And decessor: bold tacking between general and convictions, in service of our engagement in doing so we honor what endures beyond specific articulation; recognition of religion’s with those of others. Only in these ways us, and its source. ❑ divinity and its humanity, and—because can we finally honor such staple elements Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean

AUTUMN 2006 | 5 Autumn and Winter Events

Nuveen Lecture

Thursday, November 2, 2006 4:00 p.m., Swift Lecture Hall The John Nuveen Lecture is sponsored by the Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union, who oversee an endowment that helps to support the University of Chicago Divinity School. Each year, a prominent member of the University’s faculty is invited by the BTU and the Divinity School to deliver the lecture. This year’s Nuveen Lecturer will be Geoffrey Stone, the Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in the Law School. Please see http://divinity .uchicago.edu/alumni/nuveen.shtml for more information.

For calendar updates, please consult the Divinity School’s website at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/. Access the most up-to-date events information, sign up for our electronic events calendar (“At the Divinity School”), and get current (and archived) news.

EVENTS AUTUMN AND WINTER QUARTERS INCLUDE

Wednesday Community Luncheons

Every Wednesday when school is in session 12:00 noon–1:30 p.m. Swift Hall Common Room Please see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/ news/wednesdays.shtml for information AAR/SBL Reception about speakers. Speakers are invited from the University, the local community, or Sunday, November 19 beyond. Lunch topics this year include how 9:00 p.m., Washington D.C. flowers changed the world, a Dean’s Forum featuring Professor William Schweiker, the All Divinity School alumni and friends are looting of antiquities in Iraq, and more. invited to a reception at the annual meeting The programs provide a unique opportuni- of the American Academy of Religion ty for students, staff, and faculty to engage (AAR) and Society for Biblical Literature one another in informal conversation. (SBL), to be held this year in Washington, Lunch itself (a vegetarian meal; a vegan D.C. For more information, please contact 773 702 8248 option is available by request) is prepared Memorial Service for Mary Jean Kraybill at - - or [email protected]. We look forward and served by our creative and energetic Tikva Frymer-Kensky student staff. Those interested in attending to seeing you there! should reserve a lunch in advance by email- Thursday, October 19 ing [email protected] or by calling 4:30 p.m., Joseph Bond Chapel 773 702 8230 - - . 1050 East 59th Street

Memorial service for Professor Tikva Frymer-Kensky (1943-2006), Professor of Hebrew Bible and the History of Judaism at the Divinity School. Please see page 5 for more informa- tion on Professor Frymer-Kensky. For upcoming Conferences, please see Marty Center News and Events, page 11.

Bond Chapel Worship

Every Wednesday when school is in session 11:30 a.m.–12:00 noon in the Joseph Bond Chapel, 1050 East 59th Street Bond Chapel worship is a brief midweek service of music, prayer, readings, and preaching in an ecumenical spirit, offered by and for the students, staff, and faculty of the Divinity School and the wider University community. The weekly gathering provides regular space and place for reflection, wonder, and praise. All are welcome!

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“The interdisciplinary nature of the Philosophy of Religion area remains a connecting thread in the projects of students and the efforts of the club...”

The interdisciplinary nature of the Philos- ophy of Religion area remains a connecting thread in the projects of students and the efforts of the club, which has been steadily working on a cross-disciplinary conference to be held in January 2007, called “Physics, Physiology, Philosophy: Three Paths, One Spirited Product.” Embracing physics (the evolution of matter), physiology (the brain and consciousness), and philosophy (philo- sophical and theological implications), this apping off the 2006 Spring Quarter with an end-of-the-year conference will be one preliminary product highlighting the possibilities of what could BBQ, students and friends of the Philosophy of Religion arise when these three paths converge. For registration and more information, please see Club gathered for another opportunity for community and the conference website, http://marty-center C .uchicago.edu/conferences/ph3/index.shtml. conversation outside the walls of Swift Hall. Having begun the year The Philosophy of Religion club is just one of many Divinity area clubs established with a faculty and student dinner hosted at the same apartment, it to provided an outlet for students to continue intellectual conversations in more informal seemed appropriate to come full circle. And indeed, the intellectual environments (perhaps over a pint or two), as life of the club itself has followed a similar tack. a vehicle for faculty and student presentations, and perhaps most importantly, to cultivate an integrative social communitas to strengthen the The Philosophy of Religion area was found- The 2005–2006 year welcomed many con- bonds formed within the classroom. Having ed largely by Paul Griffiths, now at the Uni- versations that have become more familiar completed at least one circle, we hope to com- versity of Illinois at Chicago. Reflecting strong to students of PR in recent years, including, plete many more. ❑ faculty interest in Indian philosophy and appropriately, a discussion with Professor Paul comparative projects with Western philoso- Griffiths on Augustine and the nature of — Megan Doherty PR Club President 2006‒2007 phy, these efforts were echoed in those of intellectual curiosity. The club also invited the club. Upon Griffiths’ move to UIC, the Professor Chris Gamwell to discuss meta- club lost both its faculty sponsor and its steam, physical necessity, and joined forces with the disappearing from view until just a few years Ethics Club for a workshop with Professor ago. In the interim, the interests of the con- William Schweiker on the “varieties of reli- centration’s Ph.D. students shifted away from gious atheism” with regard to Anthony Flew. its grassroots to rest more squarely in Western In addition to workshops with professors, the philosophy, without this latter aspect being club remains committed to providing students only a dialogue partner. The club was revived an opportunity to hear feedback on their a few years ago and soon received the help own work, and this year discussed the oral of Dan Arnold, whose own background and examination papers of two of our Ph.D.’s. interests strongly overlap both voices in the The upcoming year will complete the exchange. picture, thanks in large part to second-year M.A. student Alan Dagovitz. His interests and expertise round out the club’s activities The Divinity Students Association to more faithfully reflect its origins and the (DSA) is an organization run by and “The Philosophy of Religion wide-ranging pursuits of its students, and we for University of Chicago Divinity 13 club is just one of many eagerly anticipate a workshop (Oct. , noon) School students. The organization with Professor Brook Ziporyn of Northwestern attempts to contribute to many spheres Divinity area clubs established University entitled “Hitler, the Holocaust, and of life in the Divinity School: academic, to provided an outlet for the Tian-tai Doctrine of Evil as the Good.” professional, and social. This article Alan is also organizing a series of workshops continues our series about Divinity students to continue intellectual on translation, given the central role of the School student life. conversations in more informal original language for understanding a thinker’s position, particularly when that language is To learn more about the DSA and its environments (perhaps over radically different from English. Responding many activities, please visit http:// to the question, “Why am I learning this divinity.uchicago.edu/student/dsa/ a pint or two)...” language?” will also explore how one’s own index.shtml analysis of the argument can affect translation.

AUTUMN 2006 | 7 Ministry Program Update

“It’s true; people in the pew are often reluctant to embrace changes in the style of worship. When it comes to worship services, we want what is familiar.”

JOYCE: I began the course with Emerson’s study because I thought he would help us to focus on the question: What’s going on? In order for ministers to lead the church to respond theologically and ethically to the challenges that cultural pluralism brings about, they need first to analyze what is going on. If you recall, this is the first question that H. Richard Niebuhr in The Responsible Self thinks that the responsible person should ask. Appropriating Niebuhr’s insight, I assigned Emerson’s sociological study first.

JONATHAN: Before the course I anticipated that the most critical parts of creating a Grappling with communal pluralistic congregation were those that worship in a pluralistic culture are primarily external to worship—social ministry, programming, and community involvement. However, by focusing solely inistry students are often drawn to M.Div. study at the on the art of worship—and treating it as an art where detail and nuance matter—it Divinity School because of its historic commitment to was clear that my initial line of thinking is at least partly why many churches seek to educate professors, researchers, and ministers under one become diverse but so few can actually achieve M that goal. Corporate worship remains the roof, with a single faculty and courses in which Ph.D., M.A., and most frequent and identifiable church activity M.Div. students discuss texts and traditions side by side. Not only does and is the place where churches express com- munal values and commitments of faith. If this arrangement grant future ministers full access to the tools of crit- pluralism is indeed a church value it must be expressed not only at the fringes of com- ical scholarship, it also invites future professors to grapple with critical munal life but also in the sacred space of issues in religious leadership and practice. As part of her year-long asso- worship. Of course, this requires change and risk-taking which creates vulnerability ciation as a junior fellow in the Divinity School’s Marty Center, Ph.D. —especially for pastors. student Joyce Shin created and taught an elective course for ministry JOYCE: It’s true; people in the pew are often reluctant to embrace changes in the style of students, based on a timely concern for the integrity of communal worship. When it comes to worship services, worship in an increasingly pluralistic culture. In what follows, Joyce we want what is familiar. A red flag seems always to accompany attempts to change reflects on the experience of the class with first-year M.Div. student the style of worship, signaling a potentially divisive issue. The point of this course was to Jonathan Friesen. — Cynthia Gano Lindner, Director of Ministry Studies show that this does not have to be the case. By attending to the art of worship—that is, the artistic activity of creating worship services JOYCE: What led you to sign up for this of that diversity or be in danger of being and the artistic experience of worship, we can course? seen as irrelevant. Certainly from the course create new styles of worship that are integrat- —the class discussions, the texts, and the ing rather than divisive. In fact, I think that JONATHAN: I was attracted to the course final project—it was very evident that cre- among all the activities of ministry, creating because it addressed a very current issue ating a church environment that is open worship, because of its aesthetic qualities, has that is presenting a very practical challenge and sensitive to people from many different the most potential for theologically ethically for the Church. Creating healthy, active, backgrounds presents an immense pastoral addressing the question of how Christians reflective, sensitive, and pluralistic worship- challenge. The depth of this challenge was can negotiate their commitments to multiple ping communities in the midst of racial and confirmed by sociologist Michael Emerson, cultural communities in order to live with economic diversity is already an important whose newest book People of the Dream: integrity. issue. In the coming years it will be even Multiracial Congregation in the United States more critical. Not only are our coworkers includes extensive research on pluralistic JONATHAN: Yes, and it was interesting how and neighbors often from different ethnic congregations. His findings highlight both we explored this question of creating corpo- and religious backgrounds but, increasingly, the rarity of multiracial congregations and rate worship. Very few of the texts referenced so are our closest friends and family mem- the risk-taking churches and their leaders worship specifically. Instead, we explored the bers. Our culture is getting more diverse must embrace in order to create authentic whole of worship by looking at the individual and the Church must start reflecting some and integrity-filled pluralistic communities. parts that constitute deep and authentic

8CIRCA experiences and expressions of faith. We read this must also be extended to include racial Hauerwas and Guroian on community, reconciliation. The pastoral challenge then Margaret Farley on commitment, Dewey on was to incorporate this deeply rooted theo- the role of aesthetics, and Edwards on the logical value into elements of worship to create role of the affections. Sociologists Emerson a spiritual environment and experience that and Robert Wuthnow provided additional is open, sensitive, generous, and welcoming insights from their field work. Peter Phan to both the strangers and friends among us and James Cone provided perspectives from who claim a different set of life experiences. different cultural and social locations. One large take-away from the texts for me was JOYCE: The final projects gave students the Margaret Farley’s definition of commitment opportunity to utilize what they learned in as the value that can create wholeness for a the course, to synthesize the concepts in cre- community while it works toward its goals ating worship services of their own design. My and is not yet whole. Churches and pastors hope, of course, was for students to create that hope to create pluralistic churches will worship services that they could not have have to rely on strong commitments to one created before taking the course. another and to common values in order to sustain them through a very challenging JONATHAN: I found the course very meaning- process that has the potential to be very life- ful but one limitation was the small number giving but also to be painful and draining. of non-white voices among the students. Do you think the class would have been signifi- JOYCE: Personal commitments; a sense of cantly different with a more diverse group of community; emotions and how they function; apply the theological and ethical concepts students? and aesthetics—these are all important aspects we explored throughout the course. It was from which we can gain a better understanding a highly practical project that forced us to JOYCE: If more students with commitments of the experience of faith. Rather than design consider each element of the service—from to multiple cultural communities had taken a course that offered “50 ways to create fabu- the aesthetic environment to the music to the course, I think our seminar conversations lous multicultural worship services,” I wanted the offering—and explore how they could would have dwelled longer on understanding to design a course on worship and ethics that be made more open and sensitive to people the experience of faith from the perspectives had at its heart a concern about the experience of diverse backgrounds while still retaining of persons whose lives are characterized by of faith. Drawing, for example, on Jonathan their theological and ethical integrity. In my constant negotiations among their commit- Edwards’s Religious Affections, John Dewey’s case I searched my own tradition as an Ana- ments. I think the students would have engaged Art as Experience, Margaret Farley’s Personal baptist, drawing on a commitment to peace- the course readings on intercultural theology Commitments, Hauerwas’s communitarian making and reconciliation and concluded that more deeply than they did, because they would narrative theology, and of course H. Richard have seen the powerful way in which efforts Niebuhr’s theory of responsibility and radical in intercultural theology resonate with the monotheism, I intended the course to provide “Personal commitments; experience of cultural minorities. concepts by which students could analyze the experience of faith. Furthermore, I also wanted a sense of community; JONATHAN: What are the final things that to show how predominantly theological ethical you had hoped people would take from the concepts can be put to work when we engage emotions and how they course? the arts of worship. function; and aesthetics— JOYCE: I hope that when the students of this JONATHAN: That makes sense considering these are all important aspects class create worship services in their future how you designed the final project of the from which we can gain ministries, they will approach worship as an course which required us to plan a pluralistic art and will find the theological, ethical, and worship service and discuss the ethical, theo- a better understanding of aesthetic concepts that we reflected upon in logical, and pastoral implications of each this course to be valuable resources for creating worship element. We had to weave together the experience of faith.” worship experiences that cultivate the integrity the diverse set of thinkers we had read and of persons of faith. ❑

Ministry Survey: Have We Heard from You Yet?

Over recent years there has been increasing in our B.D., D.Min., and M.Div. programs autumn. We hope that this effort is only the concern about the quality and preparation from the 1950’s through the present. From prelude to a dynamic and essential conver- of religious leadership in the United States. the early responses—well over 100, so far— sation that will invigorate both the teaching Rigorous national studies have investigated we have already learned much about the many and the practice of ministry for some time the experience of religious vocation and gauged forms and contexts of ministry in which our to come. the job satisfaction of pastors, and many theo- alums have been engaged, what sorts of edu- If you have forgotten to return your survey, logical educators have begun to take a long cational experiences have served them well, we encourage you to take a few moments to hard look at how we train persons for reli- what has been lacking, and what we might do so at your earliest convenience. If it has gious leadership in these challenging and do well to consider as we continue to pre- been lost or misplaced, or if you never received complicated times. pare students for lives of public ministry. a mailing, the survey form is also available at As part of this broader discussion about Not surprisingly, many of you have taken http://divinity.uchicago.edu/degree/ministry/ the preparation and practice of ministry, the the time to annotate your responses; we espe- survey.shtml. If you would prefer a paper Divinity School is seeking the wisdom and cially appreciate these generous and thought- copy, write or call Cynthia Lindner, Direc- experience of our own ministry alumni/ae. ful reflections. A summary of our findings tor of Ministry Studies, 1025 E. 58th Street, In early summer, a short questionnaire on will be included in the first edition of a Chicago, 60637; 773-702-8280. Every ministry education was mailed to over 500 newsletter for Divinity School alums in response is a valuable one; please let us Divinity School alums, persons who studied ministry, which we hope to launch this hear from you!

AUTUMN 2006 | 9 An Interview with Michael Sells

“There is little on the technical level we need or could add to such resources; it is just a matter of finding ways to better integrate them into the classroom.”

CIRCA: Could you talk about study of the Qur’an and the Internet: What’s there that is exciting, and what do you hope to do?

MS: Professor Zeghal (Assistant Professor in the Divinity School) and I have received a small grant for some projects in Islamic studies involving the Internet. We have several goals in mind. In the area of qur’anic studies, many Internet sites for the Qur’an are already ichael Sells is the John Henry Barrows Professor of of great sophistication, with color-coded grammatical recitation and a range of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School. he recitations (in various styles and by various 2005 reciters) synchronized with the text as it passes joined the Divinity School faculty in July of . The on the screen from passage to passage. There M is little on the technical level we need or could world’s most distinguished translator and interpreter of the Qur’an and add to such resources; it is just a matter of finding ways to better integrate them into an expert on Sufism and its poetry, Sells is also an important voice in the classroom. In my courses on Islamic love poetry and Arabic Sufi poetry, however, I am discussions of contemporary Islamic politics. finding that the poetic world of recitation is not available in this manner. What websites been covered. After finishing my dissertation exist are rudimentary in comparison to the at Chicago (in the area of mystical language), Qur’an; the outstanding digital CDs produced I found myself teaching courses on Islam at in the Middle East have not been compatible Stanford and Haverford College in an under- with post-Windows-98 systems or easily adapt- graduate, non-Arabic-reading environment able to electronic reserves. The Center for and ran into the problem of translation: Middle Eastern Studies and the Near Eastern namely, that whatever the Qur’an might Languages and Civilizations faculty and stu- mean in Arabic (and it is only in Arabic dents have made major strides in this regard. that most Muslims experience it and only Several individuals have recorded recitations in Arabic that most recognize the Qur’an of pre-Islamic and early Arabic poetry or as truly Qur’an), the English versions not helped the faculty obtain them and Professor only failed to catch fully, they often set off Tahera Qutbuddin (Department of Near reactions in the student that were counter- Eastern Languages and Civilizations) has productive to any understanding of why a incorporated them into her Chalk sites. The tradition would hold such a text in special weekly Arabic circle is now recorded in its regard as a word of self-evidently greater-than- entirety and made available through iTunes CIRCA: How did a Ph.D. in comparative human artistry. These experiences, over the to both the campus and the international literature at this University come to be a course of several years, led me to introduce community. My goal is to help bring these scholar of the Qur’an? more interlinear translations and translitera- various efforts together, to obtain new resources tions and recorded Qur’an recitations in class, from around the world on Arabic and other MS: When I came to the U of C in 1976 as which led in turn to increased theoretical and (Persian, Urdu, Ottoman, Turkish, Punjabi, a Master’s student in Comparative Literature, practical interest in the way in which the Hindi, etc.) poetic performances, and, with I focused upon Arabic literature. That year Qur’an in its recited form creates “sound- careful concern for copyright and property I took courses with Professor Fazlur Rahman figures” and the centrality of such figures for protection, develop an interdepartmental in the Qur’an and in Islamic Mysticism. The the way in which the Qur’an is experienced website with key recitations from various course in the Qur’an focused on close readings, and taken to heart. periods, that might have audio and textual in class, of the Arabic text. In 1977 I went synchronicity. Professor Zeghal has expressed to Cairo with CASA (the Center for Arabic interest in the possibility of developing video Studies Abroad) where I was fortunate enough capabilities for her classroom studies of to be able to take a course in tajwid (the art “... why a tradition would Islamic communities in the Chicago area. of proper Qur’anic recitation) and came to experience the role of recitation within Islamic hold such a text in special CIRCA: Having come to a University that society more closely. When I returned to regard as a word of self- calls itself “a teacher of teachers” after hav- Chicago, I audited Fazlur Rahman’s class, ing been an honored teacher at a premier which, although it focused each year on the evidently greater-than- liberal arts college, what do you hope to same Qur’anic suras, had something new human artistry...” convey to your students about the relation- to offer each time, and allowed for a deeper ship of their training to their work as appreciation of those areas that had previously pedagogues? Continued on page 12

10 C I R C A The Martin Marty Center builds on a long-standing Marty conviction of the Divinity School that the best and most innovative scholarship in religion emerges from Center sustained dialogue with the world outside the academy. In all of its projects, the Center aims to serve as a robust circulatory system News and that strengthens, deepens, and extends scholarly inquiry by mov- ing it through the deliberating bodies of the students, faculty, Events and public. — Wendy Doniger, Director of the Marty Center Marty Center Conferences

Without Nature? Hermeneutics in History: October 26–28, 2006 Mircea Eliade, Joachim Wach, and the Science of Religions Acknowledging the insufficiency of tradi- tional notions of “nature,” as well as the November 3–4, 2006 multiple ambiguities of the term’s reference, this conference considers how one might This conference will evaluate the legacy of constructively understand its contemporary Eliade and Wach in the discipline of the import both in fidelity to the Christian gospel history of religions. Keynote lectures, at 4 00 and with serious attention to pressing ethical : p.m., are open to the public; seminars concerns. The aim is theological, but the are open to members of the University com- method interdisciplinary. munity who register in advance. For more For details, including registration info and details please see http://marty-center.uchicago participants, please see http://marty-center .edu/conferences/wach_eliade/index.shtml. .uchicago.edu/conferences/nature/index.shtml

Upcoming 2007 Conferences

The Self Modernity’s Other: January 24–25, 2007 Studies on Jewish Women 12‒13, 2007 Organized by Professor Jean-Luc Marion. February Please watch our website, http://divinity This conference is an .uchicago.edu, for more information. opportunity to inves- Religion and Culture tigate new sources and Web Forum Launches reexamine primary New Board Physics, Physiology, documents through the perspective of The Religion and Culture Web Forum Philosophy: Three Paths, alternative visions of recently unveiled a new look and feel. One Spirited Product gender and agency In September we launched an improved and alternative mod- discussion board with expanded func- 26, 2007 January ernities. Among the tionality, including the option to be far-reaching changes witnessed by what is Three scholars from decidedly diverse edu- notified when a new post is added. generally called modernity is the separation cational and academic interests have come Passwords are no longer required to of previously undifferentiated spheres of together in recent conversations to discover read the commentary. Please join the life—belief vs. practice, public vs. private. commonalities and conflicts. Their continu- discussion at http://marty-center.uchicago This change poses a radical challenge in ing dialogue stands out as one exemplary .edu/webforum/index.shtml particular to Judaism. With the separation instance of a constructive, interdisciplinary The September essay, “Learning of these (decidedly gendered) spheres came conversation that has not sacrificed rigor or Religion at the Vineyard: Prayer, Dis- changing attitudes toward Jews as a people, the distinctions between disciplines. Embracing cernment, and Participation in the citizens, capital, and a community. This physics (evolution of matter), physiology Divine” by Tanya Luhrmann, will be conference looks at the unique experiences (brain and consciousness) and philosophy followed by fora on the Esalen move- and perceptions of Jewish women. (philosophical and theological implications), ment (Jeffrey Kripal), the continuing For details contact Sarah Imhoff at this conference will be one preliminary product relevance of the black church to [email protected]. highlighting the possibilities of what could American politics (Melissa Harris Cosponsored by the Center for Gender arise when these paths converge. Lacewell), and religion as an imag- Studies. For more information please see ined community (Meic Pearse), Please contact Megan Doherty, megs@ http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/conferences/ uchicago.edu, for details or visit http://marty- among others. modernityandjewishwomen/ center.uchicago.edu/conferences/ph3/

AUTUMN 2006 | 11 Marty Center Fellowship Programs

The two conceptual centers of the course A Report from the Wilson Teaching Fellow were James’s definition of religion as “the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend ach year, the Alma Wilson Teaching Fellowship, made possi- themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine” (Varieties, 36) and ble by a generous endowment gift, provides one advanced his pragmatic theory of truth as “the expedient graduate student in the Divinity School an opportunity in the way of our thinking” (Pragmatism, 583). E Together they served as the touchstone for our for supervised teaching experience in the University of Chicago’s seminars that explored the category of individ- ual religious experience as a means to charac- undergraduate college. terize religion, and pragmatism as a means to evaluate religious claims. The depth of engage- ment, critical insight, and creativity these twenty-two students brought to the material far exceeded my expectations—both in the classroom discussions and their written work. One of the pedagogical challenges of the course was to develop written assignments that would push students to apply the material under consideration while simultaneously developing their writing skills. Cathleen Falsani’s The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: 2006) was the solution. For their first paper, students were asked to analyze one of her contemporary examples using James’s understanding of religion, and for the final paper, students were asked to revise this first paper and expand it to include James’s pragmatism in the analysis. This opportunity to grapple with James’s characterization of Lea Schweitz, a Ph.D. candidate in Philoso- Dewey; pragmatism echoes in the halls here. religion gave students first-hand experience phy of Religions, was awarded the fellowship Reading James is an adventure; his prose with the difficulties of defining religion and 2005 2006 for – . She offered the following is both one of the greatest merits of his work evaluating religious report on her experience. and one of its biggest challenges. claims. In addition, He is often a joy to read. Take, for instance, the process of writ- This spring, as the Alma Wilson Teaching an early description of the religious feeling: ing and revising Fellow, I had the privilege of teaching William served to develop James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience as Like love, like wrath, like hope, ambition, their editing skills. the focus of a course entitled “Pragmatism and jealousy, like every other instinctive The pace of a ten- Religion.” Teaching this text at this time in eagerness and impulse, it adds to life an week quarter is fast this place was a real pleasure. Now is an exciting enchantment which is not rationally or and furious, and this time to be teaching on religion; current events logically deducible from anything else.... course was cross- have conspired to make the classroom on reli- Religious feeling is thus an absolute listed in religious gion feel as though infused with what James studies and fundamentals. As such, time con- addition to the Subject’s range of life. It might call “live, forced, and momentous straints and institutional disciplines required gives him a new sphere of power. When options.” Students come expecting to do pursuing multiple aims at the same time, but important work and this expectation infuses a the outward battle is lost, and the outer the result was stimulating and created the classroom with anticipatory energy and imparts world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies environment for novel connections and dis- a vital responsibility. The Varieties was deliv- an interior world which otherwise would coveries. Teaching in the College this quarter ered as the Gifford Lectures in 1901–1902, and be an empty waste (Varieties, 50). gave me the opportunity to discover more as such, the timeliness of a course on this work efficient ways to maximize this environment is double because we are still on the horizon On occasion, the effect is also to get lost and to create an increasingly congenial space of the centenary anniversary of its publication. in his prose. Each week, we attempted to for cooperative thinking. The students made Teaching James in this place—at the University take a moment to revel in the text and then this lesson an easy one to learn, and it was of Chicago—is to teach pragmatism in one get down to the business of seeing the a privilege to spend the quarter working of its birthplaces and in the shadow of John arguments within. together with them on James’s Varieties. ❑

Sells Interview Continued from page 10

MS: Let me start with a more pragmatic look ing a center of gravity for the discussions and linguistic abilities of those of us present. and then perhaps move out to a comment that follow. The text (in however selective Each participant would take responsibility, on training. From the first day at the Univer- or rudimentary a way we might contact it, in whatever form his or her background sity of Chicago, I have found the classroom depending upon our varied linguistic skills) enabled, for serving as a guide to a particular experience exhilarating, thanks to the diver- serves as both a discipline and as a support, poet or tradition. We had several with Arabic sity of students, their strong preparation, and in the best scenario, for theoretical scope backgrounds, three with modern Turkish, their willingness to challenge themselves and and wide-ranging discussion. I was initially two with Ottoman, one with Persian, one others. The depth and diversity of the students anxious at my first attempt at this seminar with Urdu, and one with Bengali. Many have allowed each class to be seminar-based. method. My first day here, I explained that brought in remarkable resources from out- Contacting the text in its linguistic original the readings for the course “Islamic Love side the class, including Qawwali recitations, and its performative aspect is crucial to allow- Poetry” would depend upon the background modern Turkish films recounting the Majnun

12 C I R C A Marty Center Fellows 2006-2007

The Martin Marty Center, continuing its emphasis on global and political aspects of religion, will have one senior fellow and seventeen junior fellows in 2006‒07.

eco-justice within the ecumenical religious Chris Dorsey, “Reading Bodies, Writing community. Ron became active in interna- Health: Theological Analysis of Traditional tional work on behalf of global ethics in the Medicine in Senegal” course of research with UNESCO. He was a core member of the international drafting Matthew Drever, “Augustine’s Anthropology committee for the Earth Charter, and is cur- in Christological Perspective: A Soteriological rently cochair of the Ethics Specialist Group Hermeneutics of the Word” of the Commission on Environmental Law Courtney Handman, “Bible Translation for the World Conservation Union. and Missionization in the Waria Valley, In addition to numerous essays in books Papua New Guinea” and journals, Professor Engel is the author of Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in Elizabeth Musselman, “Either/Or or Both/ the Indiana Dunes, which won several book And: A Study of Luther and Kierkegaaard awards, including the Meltzer National Book on the Spatial, Temporal, and Logical his year’s Marty Center Disserta- Award; editor of Voluntary Associations: Socio- Conjunctivity/Disjunctivity of Divine and tion Seminar is being offered in cultural Analyses and Theological Interpreta- Human Activity” two sections, one led by Susan tion; coeditor of Ethics of Environment and Schreiner and James Robinson; the Zhange Ni, “Displacement and Integration: Development: Global Challenge, International Tother led by Wendy Doniger and Dan Arnold. Secularization, Migration and Religion in Response; and coauthor of Justice, Ecology, Both the senior research and dissertation the Contemporary Novel” and Christian Faith: A Critical Guide to the fellows, listed below, will participate in the Literature. He is a member of the editorial Timothy Peebles, “Explicit and Implicit seminar, which is designed to advance inter- boards of American Journal of Philosophy and Faith: Faith Seeking Epistemological and disciplinary research in religion. Fellows will Theology, Environmental Conservation, and Metaphysical Understanding” be required to present their individual pro- Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion. jects not only within the seminar, before their Gabriel Robinson, “Bullfighting and the Professor Engel holds an A.B. from Johns peers, but before public interlocutors at a Ritual Construction of Religion in Spain” Hopkins, a B.D. (with highest distinction) special spring meeting. The seminar’s goal from Meadville Lombard, and an M.A. and is, thus, to help participants articulate their Marsaura Shukla, “Ortholexis: Reading Ph.D. (with distinction) from the Divinity projects in ways that will be intelligible to and Theology in the Twentieth Century” School of the University of Chicago. specialists and non-specialists alike. Alicia Turner, “Reviving Buddhism, Culti- vating the Nation: Buddhist Associations Dissertation Fellows Senior Research Fellow and the Transformation of Identity in Of our seventeen dissertation fellows, fifteen Colonial Burma” J. Ronald Engel is Professor Emeritus at are Divinity School students and two are Meadville Lombard and Senior Research Edward Upton, “India and Identity in extradepartmental. Consultant, The Center for Humans and T.S. Eliot’s Poetics of the Self” Nature, with offices in New York and Chicago. The Divinity School students and their Alexander van der Haven, “Daniel Paul He taught in the fields of religious ethics, dissertations: Schreber and the Religions of the Kaiserzeit” theology and ministry at Meadville Lombard 1964 2000 from to . He also served at the Robert Baird, “Theological Novelty in Extradepartmental Fellows University as Lecturer in Ethics and Society Dante’s Commedia” at the Divinity School from 1977 to 2000, Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, South Asian and as a member of the College’s Environ- Kristin Bloomer, “Maataa Mary: Women Languages and Civilizations mental Studies Faculty. and Popular Catholicism in Tamil Nadu” “Translating Tradition, Creating Culture: Professor Engel is a pioneer in the academic Warren Chain, “What Is the Relationship A Reconstruction of the History and Develop- fields of environmental ethics, history, and between the Human Flourishing and Justice? ment of the Svasthani Vrata Katha of Nepal” theology/philosophy. Through his work with An Analysis Emerging from the Writings of the Eco-justice Working Group of the National Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Waldo Philip Venticinque, Committee on the Council of Churches, and as codirector of Emerson” Ancient Mediterranean World the Program on Ecology, Justice, and Faith “Common Causes: The Social World of in the Chicago Association of Theological Laura Desmond, “Constituting Pleasure: Guilds and Associations in Roman and Schools, he contributed to the movement for An Analysis of Vatsyanyana’s Kamasutra” Late Antique Egypt”

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Leyla romance, and Turkish musicians singing find my own center of gravity within the expecting to learn something new about the Ottoman love lyrics. If our Internet project rich and interactive world of disciplines and topic in question, and if I am learning some- gets off the ground, I hope that over the years, traditions at the university. There is no final- thing new, then I can hope others are also such resources can be added to our site, along ized “canon” in something as new as Islamic learning. In responding to student work, I with interlinear transliterations and various Studies in the American university (or even ask what it helps us learn, why that knowl- translations, which I ask students to prepare a purported canon to dispute or subvert) and edge is significant, and how the arguments in their “poem guides.” thus I challenge students to develop their own and explanations can be grounded most I am new to graduate-level teaching. What model syllabi and to explain and justify them strongly in the available evidence. ❑ I remember from my Chicago experience for any given course. I have trouble eluci- was that my work was read carefully and dating any personal pedagogical philosophy rigorously, and that I was encouraged to in terms of training; each day I come to class

AUTUMN 2006 | 13 Gifts to the Divinity SchoolM 2005‒2006

The Dean, the faculty, and the students in the Divinity School Norman F. Gustaveson Robert Michael Franklin, Jr. George P. Guthrie Warren Gary Frisina Henry O. Hardy Sally Jacobson Frostic extend their sincere thanks to all who support the work of the School. Joshua D. Heikkila Linda R. Galyon J. Keith Keeling Heidi Marlene Gehman The following alumni, friends, and organizations generously G. Richard Kern and Kelton Cobb Carolyn C. Kinsley Boyd Gibson contributed cash gifts during the 2005–2006 fiscal year ( July 1, 2005 Joel Kraemer Elmore Giles, Jr. David J. Krause Jean Gillies through June 30, 2006). Leo Dennis Lefebure G. Wayne Glick Jeanne W. Loomer Janice E. Gordon-Barnes Peter J. Mehl Donald E. Gowan William James Meyer Martha Christian Green Frank D. Minton Gerald J. Gregg Margaret Mary Mitchell John E. Groh The Honor Roll Schubert M. Ogden Alvar W. Gustafson and Joyce Ellen Robert Donel Haak Schwettman Ogden Roger D. Haight The Dean’s Circle Eri B. Hulbert Fellows David B. Parke William David Hall Wayne Parman Charles H. Hambrick $25,000+ $1,000 –$2,499 John H. Patton Robert T. Handy Performance Systems Gary L. Harbaugh Patrick and Anna Cudahy Fund Accenture Foundation Presbyterian Publishing J. Albert Harrill Norman Lear and Lyn Lear George C. Bermingham and Corporation Roger Dean Hatch John Shedd Reed and Marjorie Lindsay Reed Martha W. Bermingham Jill Raitt and Joyce A. Baugh Robert G. Schloerb and Mary Wegner Schloerb Stephen Stewart Bowen Michael B. Raschko John Allen Helgeland Jerome Bernard Brooks John W. Reed Katherine Hines-Shah Victoria Ries and Jayesh S. Hines-Shah C. Conrad Browne Susan Anne Ross Stephen A. Hirby Ernest Cadman Colwell Fellows Joseph F. Byrnes 10 000 24 999 and William Peter George Paul H. Hohm $ , –$ , Lisa G. Sowle Cahill Diane M. Ruggiero John C. Hollowell, Jr. Chapin-May Foundation of Illinois William L. Sachs John Bunn Houck Robert L. Berner, Jr. and Sheila R. Berner James W. Cronin Stephen D. Scaccia and Ina Hamilton Houck Divinity Students Association Robert W. Crowe and Elizabeth R. Crowe William R. Schoedel Wilbur K. Huck Margaret C. Fallers Richard D. Cudahy and Janet Cudahy John David Serkland Henry Idema III Joan Feitler and Robert Feitler Jan L. Damiano and Lola A. Serkland Robert W. Jais G. Ralph Strohl Richard K. Kaeske The Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc. Victoria J. Dorgan Oliver Nicklin Leonard L. Thompson Masahiro Kano Alexandra C. Earle Mark G. Toulouse Michael J. Karbowski Nuveen Benevolent Trust Fannie Mae Foundation and Jeffica L. Toulouse Teruo Kawata Smart Family Foundation Wm. Trent Foley and Pamela S. Kelley Edgar A. Towne and Kiku Kawata Jeanne M. Sullivan and Joseph P. Sullivan Carlson Gerdau Jimmy N. Walker Hugh J. Kennedy, Jr. Joan B. Gottschall Donald Robert Weisbaker Michael Jon Kessler Takeshi Kimura Shirley Jackson Case Fellows Herman Fortescue Greene Larry L. Greenfield and Barbara Greenfield Michael C. 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Klinefelter an endowment of $350,000. We welcome your and Katrina J. Staten David M. Knipe participation as we work to achieve our goal Jerome A. Stone Paul Kollman Robert Alan Super Julia Anne Lamm of enabling the Theology area to honor a stu- Mary-Morag Sutherland Anna Miran Lee dent’s exceptional accomplishment by desig- John D. Sykes, Jr. Blaise Levai Dennis Edward Tamburello Armin H. Limper nation as the Langdon Gilkey scholar for a given David C. Taylor Erika Ann Linden academic year. To contribute, please contact Mary Jean Kraybill at mjkraybill George Samuel Treynor Jeffrey H. Lindgren 773 702 8248 Priscilla Jo Trubin Jerome H. Long @uchicago.edu or at - - . Jeffrey Alan Trumbower Charles Harvey Lord Perry E. Tudor* and May Sweet Lord Warmest thanks to the following donors to the Langdon Gilkey John R. Van Eenwyk Charles H. Lowder and Juliet S. Van Eenwyk Herman E. Luben Scholarship Fund: Peter Higbie Van Ness Leland H. Mahood Roderick J. Wagner Vukosava Mandic John D. 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Nielsen Everett J. Tarbox David C. Yu Gilbert E. Miller and Kelton Cobb Sueo Oshima Leonard L. Thompson William H. Moore David Paul Grandstrand Everett L. Perry Edgar A. Towne William M. Moremen Swift Hall Club Mark D. Morrison-Reed Fritz Guy Kenneth W. Phifer Perry E. Tudor* $1 –$99 and Donna K. Morrison-Reed Roger D. Haight George V. Pixley David Jon Van Houten Joseph B. Mow Jennifer Gonder Jesse Joseph Llewellyn Price and Kim Marie Olthoff Larry J. Alderink J. Roger Myers Joel Steven Kaminsky Edward L. Queen Jerald C. Walker Barbara Ann Andrews William H. Neeriemer Danette Gentile Kauffman Jill Raitt *Deceased Dianne Emi Arakawa William James O’Brien Kathryn K. Atwater June Oda William Baird Linda E. Olds Dorlan Clio Bales Douglas Fernando Ottati John D. Barbour Alfred W. Painter Gifts in Memoriam Matching Gifts Gifts in Honor John R. Bean Garrett Edward Paul of Individuals and Julia Peterfy Bean Kenneth W. Phifer The Divinity School offers The following companies Peter T. Beckman, Jr. Edward Albert Phillips, Jr. special thanks for those gifts and foundations generously and Lydia V. Beckman In honor of Molly Bartlett George V. Pixley that honored the memory of matched gifts made to the William Joseph Berger Rabbi and Laura J. Praglin individuals during the Divinity School during the Edward W. Bergstraesser and Kenneth R. Atkinson 2005 2006 2005 2006 Mrs. Herbert Bronstein Steven Ira Berlin Elena G. Procario-Foley – year. – academic year: William A. Bingham Arthur Marvin Pry In honor of In memory of Abbott Laboratories Fund C. Howell Bischoff Arthur E. Puotinen Stan Grabarek, AM’73, PhD’78 Catherine Novotny Brehm Milton M. Chiu, DB’61, AM’63, PhD’70 Accenture Foundation Mark Allan Ramion Mr. David J. Krause John S. Broeksmit Jack V. Reeve George J. Chiu, M.D. Bank of Montreal Mr. Larry J. Loizzo Preston Mercer Browning, Jr. Richard Rice Fannie Mae Foundation Performance Systems Stanley E. 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Sheldon The John and Jane Colman Challenge Dennis C. Duling Richard E. Sherrell Stephen Curtis Duvall Donald R. Sime Leland E. Elhard Samuel Hand Speers As you may be aware, venerable Visiting S. Bernhard Erling Charles Raymond Strain Committee members John and Jane Colman H. Joan Evans Rex J. Styzens Ruth L. Flesner Paul Joseph Thiboutot made a challenge grant to the Divinity School Robert E. Frederick Grafton M. Thomas four years ago to endow the Chicago Forum on William Cullen French J. Mark Thomas Bartlett Gage and Jacquelyn Higby Religion and Theology in the Martin Marty Ramona Galitz Thomas Center. The Colmans have pledged $750,000 Dan B. Genung, Jr. Nina Terry Thorp 2 25 James Green Laura Jean Torgerson toward the total goal of $ . million; to date Thomas G. Green Kerry Merle Tupper the School has raised $750,000, but our time L. Eugene Groves USG Foundation, Inc. James S. Hamre William Barthold Vogler is coming to a close and we need your help to and Corrine Benson Hamre Edward F. Weber raise the remainder. The School seeks pledges David M. Held James Wellman 750 000 Kyle W. Henderson Norman Albert Wells of an additional $ , to realize the endowment of an outstanding David Lyle Herndon Richard W. Werner feature of doctoral education at the Divinity School. To discuss making Paul S. Hiyama Paul Henry Westermeyer 773 702 8248 @ Ann Preston Hoffman David E. Witheridge a gift, please contact Mary Jean Kraybill at - - or mjkraybill William G. Horton James Ora Yerkes uchicago.edu. Wesley V. Hromatko Daniel J. Zehnal and Marilyn Blitzstein Hromatko * Deceased

AUTUMN 2006 | 15 Dean of Students’ Report

Enrollment Nicole Marie Krysinski Student Awards, External Fellowships Peter Budnik Samantha Leah La Peter Fellowships, and and Grants “And Suddenly the Rachel Elizabeth Gano World Will be Carried This fall, the Divinity 2006 2007 American Association 63 Lindner Grants – Off: A Study of Eschata- School enrolled entering of University Women degree candidates (4 Melinda R. Magleby logical Time in the Katya Ann Maslakowski Fellowship Apocalypse of Peter” A.M.R.S., 29 M.A., 19 Divinity School Awards Chaim Meir Neria Annette Bourland Huizenga (Hans-Josef Klauck) M.Div., and 11 Ph.D.). Thomas Patrick O’Neill John Gray Rhind Award Charles Scott Preston Alicia N. Creyts Louisville Institute Laurie Feistammel Convocations Rebecca Susan Ray Nicole Erin Urbach Dissertation Fellowship “Dreaming the Super- Romulus Daniel Stefanut Bruce Pantaleo Rittenhouse natural: The Foundation Autumn 2005 Tyson J. Yost University Fellowships and Reinforcement of and Grants Spiritual Belief among M.Div. Charlotte W. Newcombe M.A. Doctoral Dissertation Shamanistic Cultures” Arthur Ashley Callaham Foreign Language and Area John Matthew Dorn Fellowship (Wendy Doniger) Michelle A. Harrington Alicia N. Creyts Study Fellowships Kirsten Boswell Ford Erik William Davis Stacey Annmarie Plate Academic Year Joseph Gardner Heidi Ruth Haverkamp Ryan David Coyne “American Destiny in Ph.D. Christine Marie Hinton Bradley Joseph Aaron Prophecy and Politics: David Ashton Clairmont Abigail Christine Zang Anthony Sadek Banout Jewish Culture The Role of the United Michael Stephen Hogue Hoffman Elaine Marie Fisher Dissertation Fellowship States in Modern Funda- Karen Elizabeth Koenig Timothy Michael Holmes Jeffrey Scott Green Benjamin Sax mentalist Prophetic Randall William Reed Shane Lloyd Isaac Sarah Emily Imhoff Interpretation” Kathleen M. Self Anastasia Porter Ruchama Johnston-Bloom Overseas Dissertation (Clark Gilpin) Matthew Jeremy Rosen Charles Scott Preston Research Grant Winter 2006 Sara Catherine Staton Gautham Reddy Carrie Dohe Katherine Malone Jason Dean Unsworth Simone M. Sandy M.A. Alexander van der Haven “Reassessing Suffrage Nicole Erin Urbach Wakaka Terry Summer Politics: The Secular Chad Michael Austin and Political Goals M.Div. Ph.D. College Graduates Elaine Marie Fisher of NAWSA” Yvonne Teresa Gilmore Sarah Esther in Religious Studies Hammerschlag Anne Taylor Mocko 2005–2006 (Clark Gilpin) Ph.D. James Scott Jackson Gautham Reddy Thomas R. Blanton John Allan Knight, Jr. Garry G. Sparks Jillian Rochat Thomas A. Borchert Sharon Lea Mattila Joseph Edward Steineger Seven students completed “The Rabbis and Peter Paul Kenny Ajay K. Rao Alexs Delaney Thompson fourth-year B.A. papers Tradition: Intellectual Steven Daniel Sacks in Religious Studies this Autonomy from Spring 2006 James J. Thompson Overseas Dissertation year, led by the B.A. paper Commitment to Research Fellowship preceptor, Bill Wood. Tradition” M.A. They and their topics are Summer 2006 David Charles Albertson (Josef Stern) Shatha K. Almutawa (advisors’ names follow Sarah Elizabeth Borgeson M.A. in brackets): The William Rainey Sarah Waite Daniel Alan Burke Aaron Rea Curtis Harper Dissertation “A Womanish Age: Natalie Michelle Carnes Benjamin Rogers Ludwig Richard Bailey The Relation between Andres Harrington Dix Fellowship M.Div. “Tearing Down the Strong- Visions and Authority Garrison Lee Doreck Rory Mosi Johnson holds of Satan: The Activism Andrew Christopher Gill William Dalton Wood II in the Life of Hildegard Avinash Francis D’Souza and Premillenial Beliefs of Bingen” Ruchama Jerusha Ph.D. of Mark Allison Matthews, (Lucy Pick) Johnston-Bloom Nelson William Tebbe John Roach Stratton, and William Bell Riley” (Clark Gilpin)

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