CIRCA News from the University of Chicago Divinity School

A CLASSIC CONUNDRUM IN THE WRITING OF HISTORY CONCERNS THE QUESTION of agency. Do humans make history, or do larger forces — that cannot be ascribed to an individual or a group actually make things happen? In one respect, the question is unhelpful — surely the answer is “all of the above” (and perhaps more). That wise observation does not, however, make the question disappear. Its persistence suggests a grasp of the options we consider as we seek to understand, in retrospect, what happened and why.

Academic institutions face an analogous ques- of a faculty member but by the student’s tion. Do individuals make the intellectual responsibility for her program. To be sure, community, or is that community some- despite our best efforts, and also because thing greater than what might be called the of our stellar faculty, every year there are sum of its parts? As is the case with our Letter students who matriculate to study with accounts of history, I reply “all of the above.” Professor X or Y. Those who do so speedily What follows constitutes a “perhaps more” discover that, absent a wider frame of refer- regarding the particular case of the Divinity ence, their project will not pass muster. School. from the What genuinely excites this faculty is not If someone were to write the history of the production of epigones, but intellectual the Divinity School, she or he could do innovation; and, more often than not, worse than to compose a series of profiles Dean students generate such excitement with of the many stellar individuals who have reference not merely to their own area of served on its faculty. That would result in concentration but to a newly formulated a tome of considerable length, real interest, intellectual space between it and others. and rich anecdote. It would convey as well A second way to capture what would the institution’s striking genius in attracting be lost in the “great man” approach to the talented people and in then affording them Divinity School resides in the familiar the freedom to pursue their inquiries into pattern of my conversations with alumni/ae religion wherever their thoughts took them. about their alma mater. These naturally and Within the diversity of their writing and understandably proceed initially from their teaching, readers would see how frequently memory of the School as they knew it: who Divinity faculty consciously endeavor to among “my” faculty (I cherish the possessive) serve a variety of publics — the academy, the remains? But this invariably shifts to a very churches and, more recently, the synagogues different question, asked with equal if not and the mosques, and the broader civil society. greater urgency: is Swift Hall still the same Such a volume would be studded with won- sort of place? Are the conversations still derful anecdotes, one or two tragedies, and energetic and tough-minded? Can people many moments of humor. It would also imply still argue seriously and think in creative the precedence at Chicago of the tutorial ways, from new perspectives? This perennial model of graduate education, in which the query from our graduates testifies to a larger student apprentices herself to a great mind. ... what makes Swift Hall the sense of the place that goes beyond any Whether or not it would sell, it would individual, and to an enduring ethos that be a fine and useful portrait of Swift Hall. place that it has been, is now, transcends not just individual superstars — Despite these attractions, such a history faculty or student — but particular epochs of the Divinity School would mislead in at and always will be is beyond the and their specific curricula for teaching and least one crucial respect — or at least it would learning. require one to read between the lines to get ken of any one person, or indeed From a decanal perspective, then, the the fullest story. It would obscure the fact strength of the Divinity School resides in that what makes Swift Hall the place that it any one collation of individuals, its “both/and” answer to the “either/or” has been, is now, and always will be is beyond to foster or sustain. question. The “perhaps more” that accom- the ken of any one person, or indeed any one panies it is that individual brilliance and collation of individuals, to foster or sustain. accomplishment must have as its counter- This is the sort of point that lends itself to part a commitment to conversation, in the abstractions, and true to form I shall indulge always ascribed is not the tutorial model, but conviction that it is the product of such those momentarily. But let me make the a communitarian one: we invite students to exchanges that will inevitably represent the point initially in two different but much study with the faculty, and the requirements best that we can think — and thus do the more concrete ways. One is to note that the they must meet underscore the importance greatest justice to the topic that we serve. K model of pedagogy to which Swift Hall has of wide consultation unified not by the work Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean

SPRING 2010 | NUMBER 33 Faculty News and Notes

Browning’s Book Selected by ISSR Library

Religious Thought and the Modern Psycholo- gies: A Critical Conversation in the Theology of Culture, by Don S. Browning, Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and Social Sciences, has been selected as an element of the International Society for Science and Religion Library. The Library project was launched in November 2007 with the inten- tion of creating a comprehensive resource for scholars, students, and interested lay readers in the area of science and the human spirit. The Library will consist of between two hundred and two hundred and fifty volumes that span the broad dialogue and crucial subfields, and provide essential background materials, providing the kind of coherent overview currently lacking in this still nascent field. Each book selected is subjected to a rigorous, multistage process. Browning has also recently received the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Alumni everal Divinity School faculty members have recently received Council of Disciples Divinity House and the Joann Rasmussen Silver Book Award for Intel- honors in recognition of their work to date and in support of lectual Leadership by the Institute for American Stheir current research projects. To access online faculty profiles, which include bibliographies, photographs, and contact information for all faculty members, please see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/.

Evans is a historian of American religion. His teaching interests include modern American religion, race and religion in U.S. history, and slavery and Christianity. His first book, The Burden of Black Religion (Oxford University Press, 2008), argued that black religion was crucial in debates about the role of blacks in American culture, especially prior to realistic prospects for integration. Values. The Center for Theological Inquiry His research emphases are on interpretations in Princeton, New Jersey, has created the Don and cultural images of African American Browning Fellowship on Interdisciplinary religion, churches and the problem of racial Studies. and social reform, and the effects of con- Browning has interests in the relation sumerism on the practice of Christianity in of religious thought to the social sciences, the twentieth century. His current research specifically in the way theological ethics may project is an exploration of the formation employ sociology, psychology, and the social and evolution of “Race Relations” Sundays 1920 scientific study of religion. A student of founded in the s under the auspices of psychology, he has the Federal Council of Churches. special interests in psychoanalysis, Evans to Give self-psychology, Otts-Maloney Lectures object-relations theory, and evolu- Curtis J. Evans, Assistant Professor of the tionary psychology, History of Christianity, will deliver the 2010 and has written Otts-Maloney lectures to Davidson College. on the cultural, This lecture series consists of two lectures, theological, and given on successive evenings. ethical analysis Two separate endowments—the Otts of the modern and Maloney bequests—have enabled psychologies. An Davidson College in North Carolina to interest in issues and methods in practical bring many great lecturers to their campus theology led to his work A Fundamental over the years in every area of religious stud- Practical Theology: With Descriptive and ies. Recent memorable lecturers have Strategic Proposals. As Director of the Lilly included James Cone, Mary Ann Tolbert, Project on Religion, Culture, and the Family, Donald Shriver, Gustav Niebuhr, Kathryn Professor Browning is now working on issues Tanner, William Schweiker, Dale Martin, pertaining to the shape and future of the and Bart Ehrman. postmodern family.

2CIRCA Franklin Named Alumnus of the Year

Visions: Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African American Thought (1990). He has he Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union has coauthored (with Don S. Browning, et al.) a named Robert Michael Franklin, Jr., Ph.D., the Divinity volume titled From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family School’s Alumnus of the Year for 2010. Debate (2001). He is the coeditor of the T forthcoming The Cambridge Companion to Franklin is the tenth President of Morehouse Divinity School, and Emory College, the nation’s largest private, four-year University’s Candler School of liberal arts college for men. Franklin earned Theology, where he gained a his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School in national reputation as Director 1978, and his Ph.D. from The University of of Black Church Studies. Chicago Divinity School in 1985 for work on He provides commentary Ethics and Society and Religion and the for the National Public Radio Social Sciences. (NPR) program “All Things Prior to his appointment at Morehouse, Considered,” and weekly com- Franklin was a Presidential Distinguished mentary for Atlanta Interfaith Professor of Social Ethics at Emory University, Broadcasting Television. where he provided leadership for a university- He has served as program wide initiative titled “Confronting the Human officer in Human Rights and Condition and the Human Experience” and Social Justice at the Ford was a senior fellow at Foundation, and as an the Center for the adviser to the foundation’s Study of Law and president on future fund- Religion at the law ing for religion and public school. life initiatives. Franklin Franklin graduated was invited by American Phi Beta Kappa from film producer Jeffrey Morehouse in 1975 with Katzenberg to prepare an a degree in political online study guide for the science and religion. congregational use of He continued his The Prince of Egypt, a Martin Luther King Jr., published by education at Harvard DreamWorks film (1999). Cambridge University Press. Divinity School, earn- In 1997, Franklin A seasoned traveler, Franklin has studied ing a master of divinity degree in assumed the presidency of seven languages and visited Africa, Asia, Christian social ethics and pastoral the Interdenominational Europe, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. care in 1978, and at the University Theological Center (ITC), He is the recipient of a Ford Foundation of Chicago, earning a doctorate in the Graduate Theological grant to examine religion in public life in ethics and society, and religion and Seminary of the Atlanta Asia and has produced NPR commentaries the social sciences in 1985. He also University Center consor- based on this research. Since 2003, he has undertook international study at tium. He served as the served as a consultant for the Annie E. the University of Durham, UK, as Chautauqua Institution’s Casey Foundation. K a 1973 English Speaking Union Theologian in Residence Scholar. His major fields of study for the 2005 season. Franklin will deliver his Alumnus of the include social ethics, psychology, and African Franklin is the author of three books: Year address on Thursday, April 29, 2010 American religion. Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African in Swift Lecture Hall. A reception will An insightful educator, Franklin has served American Communities (2007); Another Day’s follow. Please watch our website for on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Journey: Black Churches Confronting the details. Harvard Divinity School, Colgate-Rochester American Crisis (1997); and Liberating

Mendes-Flohr to Receive Honorary Degree

The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College will confer upon Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought, the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at the school’s graduation on June 6, 2010, in Philadelphia.

The Doctor of Humane Letters is awarded to philosophy of religion, German intellectual one individual each year who has produced history, and the history and sociology of scholarship of rare distinction, contributed in intellectuals. Together with Peter Schäfer, an outstanding way to Jewish communal and he serves as editor in chief of the twenty-two religious life in North America or Israel, and volume German edition of the collected has acted in keeping with Reconstructionist works of Martin Buber, sponsored by the ideals. In particular, Mendes-Flohr’s scholar- Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der ship on Rosenzweig, Buber, and Scholem as Wissenschaften and the Israel Academy of well as the documentary history he Sciences and Humanities. He has has compiled are contributions that recently written Jüdische Identität. and Post-Traditional Jewish Identities (the the RRC is recognizing. Die zwei Seele der deutschen Juden, and Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures). He Mendes-Flohr’s major research is currently completing a biography is the editor of a series on German-Jewish interests include modern Jewish of Franz Rosenzweig, as well as two Literature and Cultural History for the intellectual history, modern Jewish additional books: Franz Rosenzweig University of Chicago Press. K philosophy and religious thought, and the Possibility of a Jewish Theology

SPRING 2010 | 3 Faculty News and Notes

Sulmasy Appointed practice of medicine. His empirical studies have explored topics such as decision-making Kilbride-Clinton Professor by surrogates on behalf of patients who are of Medicine and Ethics nearing death, and informed consent for biomedical research. Daniel P. Sulmasy has been appointed Kil- Sulmasy received his M.D. from Cornell bride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and University and his Ph.D. from Georgetown Ethics in the Department of Medicine and University. He completed his residency, chief Divinity School and Associate Director of residency, and post-doctoral fellowship in the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical General Internal Medicine at the Johns Ethics in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Hopkins Hospital. He has previously held Sulmasy is a faculty positions at Georgetown University Franciscan friar, and New York Medical College. He contin- internist, and ues to practice medicine part-time as a mem- ethicist. His ber of the University faculty practice. research inter- the undergraduate housing system, and then ests encompass Bigger Named Divinity’s held administrative jobs off-campus, includ- both theoretical ing one at the Church of St. Paul & the and empirical Assistant Director of Redeemer, in Kenwood. investigations of Development Sara’s responsibilities at the Divinity the ethics of School include overseeing the Annual Fund end-of-life deci- Raised as a military brat, Sara Bigger lived and the Visiting Committee, managing the sion-making, throughout the US and in Okinawa, Japan database, stewarding gifts and fellowships, ethics educa- before attending Marquette University and and identifying new vehicles for engaging tion, and spirituality in medicine. He has earning a B. S. in Mathematics. She taught alumni in the life of the School on a regular done extensive work on the role of intention math and religion at Gonzaga College Prep basis. She can be reached at 773-702-1867 in medical action, especially as it relates to in Washington, DC and then moved to or [email protected]. the rule of double effect and the distinction Chicago in 1991, when she came to the between killing and allowing to die. He is Divinity School and earned an AMRS Correction also interested in the philosophy of medicine degree. Sara then taught at St. Ignatius Col- and the logic of diagnostic and therapeutic lege Prep here in Chicago, where she was Garry Sparks’s name was omitted from the reasoning. His work in spirituality is focused also the Director of Student Activities. She list of Divinity School recipients of the 2009 primarily on the spiritual dimensions of the came back to campus as a Resident Head in Provost’s Summer Grant.

The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology (New York, 1999, coedited with S. Kaufman and T. Hess); Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics and Culture (Hanover NH, 2008, coedited with R. Kark and M. Shilo). Professor Hasan-Rokem has served as visiting professor at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and at various Scandinavian universities. She has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and is presently a Senior Fellow at Scholion Center for Inter- Hasan-Rokem in Residence Spring 2010 disciplinary Research in Jewish Galit Hasan-Rokem, the Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore at the Studies at the Hebrew University Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will be Visit- of Jerusalem. K ing Professor of Israel Studies in Spring Quarter, 2010.

Her main research interests include ethno- Among her publications in English are graphic, folkloristic and literary approaches Proverbs in Israeli Folk Narratives: A Structural to ancient Hebrew literature especially of Semantic Analysis (Helsinki, 1982); Web of the classical Rabbinic periods, i.e., the Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Liter- Talmudic-Midrashic corpus; the cultural ature (Stanford, 2000); Tales of the Neighbor- variation of contemporary Israel, focusing hood: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late on interfaces between various groups; the Antiquity (Berkeley, 2003). Her edited volumes conceptualization of mobility in European include The Wandering Jew: Interpretations literature with special reference to Jews; of a Christian Legend (Bloomington IN, theory of folklore, especially semiotics and 1986, coedited with A. Dundes); Untying the structuralism; and the folk literary and Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes discursive genre of the proverb. (New York, 1996, coedited with D. Shulman);

4CIRCA Winter and Spring Events

Sixth Annual Ministry Conference Worship in Crisis

Friday, April 23, 2010 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Swift Lecture Hall Worship in Crisis will bring together laypersons, pastors, students and theologians to discuss the crises that confront the practice of Christian worship in our time, from economic collapse to ecological endangerment. What might moments of crisis require of faith communities? Joining the conversation with keynote addresses are Peter Rollins and Siobhan Gar- rigan, as well as a panel focusing on liturgical responses to local issues. Through hands-on breakout sessions, participants will explore creative ways in which timely worship can speak to the crises of today. For more information, see http://divinity .uchicago.edu/martycenter/conferences; For calendar updates, please consult the Divinity School’s website at http:// register online by writing to ministryconfer- [email protected]. divinity.uchicago.edu. Access the most up-to-date events information, sign up for our events listserve (“At the Divinity School”), and get current news. Please see p.7 for detailed information on upcoming Marty Center conferences.

EVENTS WINTER AND SPRING QUARTERS INCLUDE

Alumnus of the Year Lecture and Reception

Thursday, April 29, 2010 A public lecture by Robert Michael Franklin, Jr., Ph.D. 1985, the Divinity School’s Alumnus of the Year for 2010, with a reception to follow. See page 3 for more information. Border Crossing Series

The Border Crossing Project continues its series of conferences and lunch discussions during this third year of its work. Here are some upcoming events: Alumni Reunion Dinner 21 1:30 Day, January , noon– p.m. Friday, April 23, 2010 Lunch Discussion 6:30 p.m., Where is this held?? “Teaching Biblical Languages” with Justin Howell and Ben Thomas, Ph.D. candidates Join us for a Ministry Alumni reunion dinner, in the Divinity School open to all alumni and their significant others, immediately following the conference recep- Day, February 19, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. tion. This event is free to participants; we Conference simply ask that you register: ministryconfer- “The Prophetic Interpreter: Preaching [email protected]. If you wish to help contact and Teaching from Scriptural Traditions in your classmates about the conference and Pluralistic Worlds” Lecture by Leo Bersani the reunion dinner, email Sara Bigger, Assistant Director of Development for the For information, see http://divinity.uchicago. 4, 2010 edu/programs/prophetic.shtml Day, May Divinity School, at [email protected]. 4:30 p.m., Swift Hall Day, April 6, noon–1:30 p.m. A public lecture by Leo Bersani, literary Wednesday Community Luncheons Lunch Discussion theorist and Professor Emeritus at the “Challenges and opportunities facing University of California, Berkeley. This is Every Wednesday when school is in session 1 15 theological education,” with Richard A. the third in a Noon– : p.m., Swift Common Room Rosengarten, Dean of the Divinity School series of lec- Lunches in Winter and Spring quarters will tures on gender There will be other lunch discussions in include Dean’s Fora with Professors Wendy and religion in the winter and spring quarters; watch Doniger, Michael Fishbane, and Francoise honor of Alex “At the Divinity School” and our website for Meltzer; and many more. Hivoltze- announcements. To reserve space or more Jimenez. Please see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/ information at any of these events, contact wednesdays.shtml for upcoming dates and Daniel Sack at sack @uchicago.edu or speaker information. 773-702-3308.

SPRING 2010 | 5 An Interview with Daniel P. Sulmasy

speak with an alienating tone of strident condemnation. Neither of these approaches aniel P. Sulmasy has been appointed Kilbride-Clinton is helpful. At its best, the Roman Catholic Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of tradition of natural law offers a way to be engaged in dialogue with all persons of Medicine and Divinity School and Associate Director of reason and good will while remaining true to one’s own religiously inspired views. My D own approach has generally been in that the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in the Department natural law tradition, broadly construed. of Medicine. For instance, in serving on the Ethics Committee of the Empire State Stem Cell Board we were able to come to some un- CIRCA: In the parlance of the medical animous ethical conclusions despite our community, you seem to move with differences. For instance, at the outset, we real purpose between the bench and the were all able to agree that, despite pressure bedside —i.e., you are both a scholar and from scientists to release funds, we would a practicing internist. Is this accurate? support a temporary moratorium on funds And if so, could you say something about for the morally controversial kinds of stem how you understand the connection cell research until we had all been able to between your research and your medical engage in a discussion about what moral practice, in particular how each inflects constraints we thought should govern such the other? research. That is to say, we agreed that there were serious matters of moral disagreement, DPS: Of course one must understand and that the importance of ethics itself “bench to bedside” as an analogy. This needed to be respected sufficiently so that is a very useful analogy, however, for we could discuss and argue the issues rather explaining to my medical colleagues than simply voting to approve such research what I do. They are often scientists and without a discussion. Second, we were able very perplexed by how my work can be seen as medical scholarship. I explain to them that just as good diabetes care depends upon good biochemistry, so, “... it is important for morally, good medical care depends religious voices to be heard upon the basic sciences of philosophy and theology. We cannot improve in their distinctiveness and medical ethics without studying ethics. out of the fullness of each particular religious tradition.”

to agree that the human embryo was an organism and deserving of respectful treat- ment. Even such language required careful and mutually respectful discussion, which took place among committee members of many religious viewpoints and of no religious viewpoint. Beyond this natural law approach, however, I also think it is important for religious voices to be heard in their distinctiveness and out of the fullness I spend most of my time doing scholarly of each particular religious tradition. For work and teaching, but I see it as important instance, when I have heard Talmudic dis- to continue practicing clinical medicine. “New technologies appear cussions of the ethics of surrogate mother- First, it helps me to keep my finger on the on the horizon continually and hood, I cannot claim Talmudic logic as “pulse” of medicine—to know what the my own. Yet I am enlightened by such issues are that clinicians and patients are are diffused before we have approaches and hearing them in their dis- currently facing. Second, it provides a sort had a chance to reflect tinctiveness helps me to better understand of “feedback loop” for me. If I cannot put the complexities of the ethical questions into practice what I write, then what I write seriously about the morality and the responses of differing communities is not worth the electrons I have spilled on to those questions. the topic. Finally, medical practice is just of their use...” too much fun. Being a physician is an CIRCA: To what extent are ethical systems incredible privilege—an opportunity to of thought taken into account by the prac- serve and to know people in a very deep How do the religions and medical ethicists ticing medical community? To what extent way at significant junctures in their lives. address these challenges? is medical practice taken into account by the community of ethicists? What are the CIRCA: The systems of thought of at least DPS: Religions are becoming more and emerging issues in medical ethics? some medical ethicists must at times find more silent, or, in some cases, have been themselves at variance with the systems of pushed to the margins of society’s conversa- DPS: Ethics is now a required course in thought of at least some religions as prac- tion about bioethical issues. When they do almost every medical school in the U.S. At ticed in the world today. And this itself speak out, too many religious voices are the University of Chicago, students spend would then lay open larger ethical issues. either indistinguishable from the secular, or forty-two hours in the first year, equally Continued on page 15

6CIRCA Ministry Program Update

Left: Church World Service and ten denomina- tional partners organized a volunteer effort that is rebuilding or repairing homes in the Little Woods neighborhood of New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward.

for agencies like Church World Service, Sojourners, and the Mennonite Central Committee. Two M.Div. graduates, both of whom are engaged in pastoral ministry, are negotiating a book contract together, while another just received word that he was awarded first prize in a national fiction con- test. And of course, there are always M.Div. alumni whose interests lead them not only to Ph.D. study in religion, with the inten- tion of working in higher education, but to other fields as well: one of our recent gradu- ates is in nursing school, and another is preparing for medical school—both engag- ing the questions and commitments that surfaced during their Divinity School days. A fascinating range of vocations extends from our ministry program; all are marked What does one DO with a ministry degree? by a commitment to careful analysis, critical reflection, and committed, creative engage- ment in the midst of the world’s complexi- o, what do graduates DO with a Master of Divinity degree?” ties. We are eager to learn more about these lives of reflective practice, and are currently Prospective students, drawn to the Divinity School’s M.Div. Sprogram for its scholarly rigor combined with opportunities for sustained practical engagement, are often curious about the venues in which their combined interests in scholarship and practice might flourish, once the degree is in hand.

Thanks to internet technology that makes it easy for graduates to stay in touch with M.Div. staff and with one another, we have more information from which to offer pro- visionary answers to these anxious students, and we are gleaning, as well, a profile of our creating more opportunities for former stu- program’s broadening ecology—an impres- dents to share their experiences and their sive community of service providers and insights with one another and with us. We scholars that which will continue to inform have activated an online bulletin board for the teaching and learning in our ministry ministry alumni which will enable commu- classrooms. nication among alumni and also between An informal sampling of correspondence alumni and the Divinity School. In the near with more recent M.Div. graduates suggests term, we will be inviting alumni to post rich and varied professional engagement. A original articles, essays, and sermons there good number of these alumni are serving in and moderating responses and discussion; pastoral roles in congregations—in New future plans for the board’s conversations York, North Carolina, Ohio, Minnesota, will evolve as we experience its usage. There Iowa, Missouri, Texas, California, Oregon, will also be a section for job postings, and and Washington—not to mention several Above: A 2008 interfaith prayer vigil for other more immediate sorts of announce- recent graduates who are working in con- immigration reform in Ohio ments as well. gregations in Chicago and its suburbs. A smaller but still substantial portion of the M.Div. alumni should have received an sample serve in hospital or military chap- email from the Divinity School announcing laincies: they have accompanied troops to our Sixth Annual Ministry Conference, “And of course, there are Iraq and provided care on psychiatric units “Worship in Crisis,” which will be held on at the Mayo Clinic and at Jackson Park April 23, 2010. In addition to a rich offering always M.Div. alumni whose Hospital. Two M.Div. alumni have recently of speakers, panels, and workshops, we will interests lead them not been called to positions on the staff of a be hosting a dinner for all ministry alumni local seminary, working in development, that evening. only to Ph.D. study in religion, community affairs, and student life; our Our new bulletin board will provide a with the intention of working own Director of Field Education is an clearinghouse to help you plan your visit example of an alumnus whose vocational for the conference. You can find the bulletin in higher education, but to engagement includes both work in higher board at https://cforum.uchicago.edu/ 11 other fields as well...” education and chaplaincy and supervision. viewforum.php?f= , and can view the post- A steady stream of graduates work at the ings there by becoming a member, with intersection between religion and public life a current email address. K

SPRING 2010 | 7 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 moving it through the deliberating bodies of the students, faculty, and Events public. — William Schweiker, Director of the Marty Center Upcoming 2010 Conferences

career with her first book, Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought, as the centerpiece. (Named by Choice as one of the top aca- demic books of 1981, Public Man, Private Woman, now in a second edition, has been in print for 28 years.) Speakers will take up multiple under- standings of public and private, examining how boundaries have shifted over time. They will address the ways in which Elshtain’s thought has contributed to wider scholarly and civic conversation. Distinguished scholars in their own Hindus in India and America: right, contributors Hinduizing America; will present their Globalizing India reflections on the conference theme May 17–19, 2010 — Swift Hall based on their own areas of expertise. We The event will gather renowned scholars to anticipate a lively discussion as Professor engage the topic—including aspects of Elshtain responds to each panel and offers Hinduism in America and patterns of Public and Private: her own comments at the close of the American scholarship about Hinduism— conference. Feminism, Marriage, and Family from their distinctive perspectives. in Political Thought and Please see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/ Please see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/ Contemporary Life martycenter/conferences/engagedmind/ martycenter/conferences/hia/index.shtml 2010/index.shtml for more information, Thursday and Friday, for more information, including the con- including the conference program. February 25–26, 2010 — Swift Hall ference program.

Jean Bethke Elshtain: The Engaged Mind Conference Series

The first of four conferences in the series Augustine, Old and New “The Engaged Mind,” reflecting on themes Portraits drawn from the work of Jean Bethke Elshtain. May 26, 2010 — Swift Hall Sponsored by the McDonald Agape Foundation. This conference will bring together four This cross-disciplinary conference will bring Augustinian scholars who will have books senior scholars and major thinkers together coming out in 2010 /2011 on Augstine. to discuss the “Elshtainian” themes of the Brian Stock (University of Toronto), James boundaries of public and private, the ethical Wetzel (Villanova University), Burcht and normative bases of family and polity, and Pranger (University of Amsterdam) and the limits and fragility of the human condi- Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago) tion. Because her work traverses so many areas will gather to discuss “The Augustinian of endeavor, Elshtain has been variously Moment: Reflection at the Limits of identified as an historian, a psychologist, a Selfhood.” sociologist, a philosopher, a “radical” feminist or a “conservative” feminist, a family scholar, Please see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/ and a bio-ethicist. This first conference in martycenter/conferences/augustine/index. the series will focus primarily on her early html for more information.

8CIRCA Senior Research Fellows

on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of religion, and the University of Chicago has enior research Fellows are scholars from the United States and continued to exercise a profound influence other countries throughout the world, on sabbatical leave from on developments in the study of rhetorical theory and criticism. Finally, and perhaps their home institutions. They are expected to situate their most importantly, the structures of account- ability placed upon senior fellows of the Marty S Center ensure that research is productive. research within a broader cultural frame of reference, bringing their per- spectives to bear on religious questions facing the wider public. Sarah Hammerschlag

We asked our Senior Research Fellows what plan to work on a new book project they hope to accomplish in their year as a tentatively titled Sowers and Sages: the Martin Marty Center Senior Fellow, and how Renaissance of Judaism in Postwar Paris. the MMC looks as a place to work. Each I This project will treat the Jewish intellectual Fellow will be presenting his or her work in movement that developed in Paris in the a public forum in our Senior Research Fellow 1950’s and 1960’s aimed at resuscitating Symposia. See http://divinity.uchicago.edu/ European Judaism after World War II. martycenter for details. During these decades prominent French Jewish intellectuals reinvested in Judaism W. David Hall and trained a generation of students to become spokespersons for the tradition. hile at the Marty Center, I’ll What unified the movement was its sense be pursuing research on a book of mission—namely a belief that the time dealing with figures of speech W had come for Judaism’s core truths to be in religious and theological discourse. This translated and transmitted to the world, for work builds on foundations that were estab- the Hebrew Bible and the rabbinic tradi- lished in past publications, particularly my tion, moreover, to serve as the foundation last book, Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative (SUNY, 2007). My research explores the function and interaction of analogy, metaphor, hyperbole, and irony by plotting them along “What unified the movement two axes that I label “integrative/disruptive” and “explicit/implicit.” Concerning the first was its sense of mission— axis, I suggest that tropes can function to namely a belief that the time integrate two or more ideas under a common theme (analogy, metaphor), or they may dis- perhaps even overturning presuppositions. had come for Judaism's core rupt thought through tactics like overstate- Concerning the second axis, I suggest that truths to be translated and ment (hyperbole), strategic misstatement, or tropes can integrate or disrupt either explicitly the presentation of situations that frustrate —in essence announcing themselves (analogy/ transmitted to the world...” expectation (irony). The first of these func- hyperbole)—or implicitly, covertly working SARAH HAMMERSCHLAG tions is fairly straightforward, and both analogy beneath the surface of the statement and in and metaphor have received much attention in a sense surprising or shocking the audience theology. The disruptive function, however, into a certain way of thinking about an idea requires a bit more explanation because there or concept (metaphor/irony). for a critique of the West. I hope to provide is a tendency to understand the disruptive The Marty Center is an ideal venue in an historical narrative of this movement, effect of hyperbole and irony in terms of which to engage an interdisciplinary project treating its origins, its central figures and “disintegration” or deconstruction. While like this one that employs religious studies, its political impact, but I also plan to use there is frequently a deconstructive moment theology, literary theory, and rhetorical crit- this narrative to analyze the strategies that icism. The Marty seminar meetings constitute allow a religious tradition to legitimate itself an exchange of ideas from scholars at various when faced with a break with the past and to levels and from various areas within the study consider the political effect of these strategies, “The employment of of religion, and I very much look forward to particularly as they involve distilling the hyperbole and irony is contributing to and benefitting from them. tradition into a dehistoricized essence. The Divinity School has long had a focus Continued on page 16 ultimately a productive rhetorical maneuver; the aim is to engender thinking, even if in a fashion that begins by disturbing and perhaps even overturning presuppositions.”

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in hyperbole and irony, I intend to stress that both are fundamentally constructive. The employment of hyperbole and irony is ulti- mately a productive rhetorical maneuver; the aim is to engender thinking, even if in a fashion that begins by disturbing and

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clergy, to name only a few. Sightings has also addressed itself to stories that receive less widespread attention; for example, commu- nications from the Vatican regarding the classification of miracles, evangelicalism and environmentalism, kosher food regulations, a Turkish game show in which the grand prize is awarded to atheists who convert to one of four religions, and more. True to its calling, Sightings has sighted religion in less likely places, including the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, retellings of Indo-European myths in popular horror films, and religious discourse on the swine flu epidemic; columns have also offered fresh interpretations of religion in obvious places, like “hyper- muscular Christianity” and the new Jewish American Girl doll. To read these and other past Sightings columns, visit our website, http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/ publications/sightings/. Sightings’ authors continue to come from hese days, one can scarcely glance at a media source—whether Swift Hall and beyond; in large part they are academics, clergy, journalists, and graduate in print, televised, or online—without spotting coverage of students. But we are especially glad for opportunities to provide analysis from other religious events or trends on the local, national, and inter- professionals who see the intersection of T religion and public life in their own fields. national stage. Gone are the days when Sightings had to work to uncover In the following piece, United States District Judge Joan Gottschall provides expert analysis then-rare “sightings” of religion in the news. of a significant brief filed last summer in the Supreme Court, groundbreaking because, Most readers would probably agree that it is informal chat), the expert analysis and com- as she argues, it introduces a new kind of a happy circumstance that Sightings today mentary provided in Sightings continues to religion-based argument in juvenile life- has plentiful company on “the religion beat.” meet a need, as authors explore overlooked without-parole cases. Judge Gottshall’s piece But as is demonstrated by the ever-climbing angles, provide fresh perspectives, and bring is insightful and illuminating, introducing subscription rate, and by the thoughtful methodological rigor to issues of religion readers to an issue of interest and importance. feedback of Sightings’ 7,300 subscribers (as in public life. It is Sightings at its best. Please enjoy read- well as countless others to whom columns are Recent columns have analyzed such hot- ing “Religion-Based Arguments in Juvenile forwarded each week, or who find Sightings topic issues as religion and the Sotomayor Life Without Parole Cases.” K reprinted in another venue or in the content hearings, the question of gay marriage, and, of of a sermon, a classroom lecture, or an course, the Pope’s pronouncements on Anglican

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he Religion and Culture Web Concordia University in Montréal seeking transpires on the “micro” rather than the Forum’s mission is to provide “an religious theoretical grounding for the theo- “macro” levels. In December Kristen Tobey, T online forum for thought-provoking logical concept of theodicy that would permit current Divinity School student and editor of discussion on the relationship of scholarship closer attention to individual suffering that Sightings discussed the Plowshares movement, in religion to culture and public life.” This an active Catholic anti-nuclear movement year the forum has continued to explore a that engages in spectacular protests. variety of approaches to and understandings Former Marty Center director Wendy of religion within a diversity of contexts that Doniger rang in the New Year with a paper characterizes the Marty Center’s engagement on concepts of Hindu theism, followed by of academic rigor in a public context. an offering from another current Divinity In September, Marlene Tromp of Denison School student, Sarah Imhoff, on current University explored the significance of food trends in Hasidic music (including adapta- in Spiritualist rituals (including séances) of tions of rap and reggae). In March, Art Victorian England. October occasioned a Historian Laura Lindenberger discussed the discussion by Yale Divinity School’s Andre evolution of representations of Uncle Tom C. Willis of “radical impermanence” in in illustrated editions of Harriet Beecher recent American pragmatism as a means for Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. addressing the implications of the current Recent respondents have included Corey financial crisis. D. B. Walker, Charles Long, Gail Turley November saw Houston, Kathryn Lofton, Jon Pahl, Winnifred Mark Scott of Fallers Sullivan, and Mark Hobart. K

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10 C I R C A Sightings: Religion-Based Arguments in Juvenile Life without Parole Cases

but that the weak and vulnerable (such as children) have a special entitlement to com- hose interested in the intersection of religious values and public passionate treatment. Indeed, it states that “[J]uveniles who commit serious crimes often policy, and particularly criminal justice policy, should take note come from disadvantaged backgrounds: many are poor, and frequently they have been the of a brief filed this past summer in the Supreme Court of the victims of abuse and neglect. These are exactly T the type of children the amici’s faith traditions 08 7412 United States in the joined cases of Graham v. Florida, No. – , and stress are most deserving of kindness and 08 7621 compassion.” Sullivan v. Florida, No. – , on behalf of approximately twenty Finally, the brief discusses the religious problem posed by a natural life sentence religious organizations as amici curiae or friends of the Court. imposed on a juvenile offender. Such a sen- (See endnotes for a list of organizations) tence is unjust, the brief argues, because it fails to recognize the potential of juveniles to grow, develop, and be rehabilitated; it thus contravenes the foundational concept of rehabilitation within each of the amici’s faith traditions. The brief quotes the Florida judge who sentenced Terrance Jamar Graham (sixteen years old when he committed the crime for which he was sentenced) to life

These two cases present the issue of whether the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment pro- scribes the sentencing of juveniles convicted of non-homicide offenses to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, as occurred imprisonment without the possibility of in these two cases. Oral argument for the parole. The judge noted Graham’s “escalating cases took place on Monday, November 9. pattern of criminal conduct,” and concluded, The brief is noteworthy for a number of “[T]here is nothing we can do for you.” This reasons. First, it represents an effort by the “nihilistic view,” the brief argues, “is anti- diverse religious groups involved to speak in thetical to the perspectives of amici’s faith one voice on a matter of faith and convic- traditions and of American society at large.” tion. Second, the brief locates as central to The amici observe that their religious traditions recognize that “just punishment must allow for the offender to be rehabili- tated and restored to the community when “[t]he brief locates as possible.” Each of their traditions, they central to each of these faith write, embraces the principle of “restorative justice,” which involves establishing a system traditions the values of mercy, The legal position advanced by the brief of justice that, in the words of Michael L. forgiveness and compassion, is also remarkable, for amici argue that their Hadley, “moves from punishment to recon- shared religious values require the Supreme ciliation, and from vengeance against offenders and the link between these Court to reverse the Florida judgments and to healing for victims, from alienation and to hold that it is a violation of the Eighth harshness to community and wholeness, from values and concepts of justice Amendment to sentence juveniles convicted negativity and destructiveness to healing, and charity...” of non-homicide offenses to life without the forgiveness, and mercy.” The brief describes possibility of parole. The brief reasons as with detailed examples how the concept follows: First, it reviews traditional religious of restorative justice is rooted in the faith recognition of the distinction between chil- traditions of the amici. each of these faith traditions the values of dren and adults, both in religious teachings Anyone who has read the news of the last mercy, forgiveness and compassion, and the regarding crime and punishment and in other several months is aware of the controversy link between these values and concepts of aspects of religious law. It then summarizes ignited by the President’s remark that among justice and charity: “In short,” the brief states, the growing scientific support for this dis- his criteria in selecting judges was empathy. “religious texts make clear that each of these tinction and reviews the widespread cultural As the pundits are fond of pointing out, on three values—mercy, forgiveness, and compas- recognition that “the physical and mental Continued on page 15 sion—must guide interpersonal and societal immaturity of youth requires special treat- relations, and are to serve as the bedrock ment.” Third, it argues that ignoring the Joan Gottschall is a United States District principles for a just and fair society.” Third, special status of youth and condemning Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, amici make the claim, rarely heard in con- juveniles to die in prison contravenes the a member of the Visiting Committee to temporary culture, that the duty of a judge, fundamental religious values of mercy, for- the University of Chicago Divinity and of a society imposing judgment, is to giveness, and compassion. The brief points School, and a member of the Martin make adequate provision for these values. out that all individuals are entitled to these, Marty Center Advisory Board.

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Sulmasy Interview Continued from page 6 divided between lecture and small group about it. And the more medical technology discussion. That might be the most required we have, the more clinicians and families hours in ethics in any medical school in the are saddled with the burden of decision country. Ethics consults have also become making. When is the technology serving routine clinical events, in which questions human needs, and when are human beings or disagreements among staff or between the enslaved to their technology? This is even medical team and the patient or family are a pastoral problem, because it ultimately discussed and, more often than not, resolved. affects nearly everyone. Before there were All of this was unheard of thirty years ago. such things as ventilators, one never had to That much being said, I cannot say that all ask whether it was a good or bad thing to of this has become very deeply rooted or that be connected to one. Before there was dial- the quality of some of these ethical discus- ysis, one never had to ask whether it is ever sions is really high everywhere. There remains morally permissible to stop it. New techno- much work to be done, which is part of why logies appear on the horizon continually and I came to the University of Chicago. We are diffused before we have had a chance to need more excellent teachers and scholars in reflect seriously about the morality of their ethics in our medical schools and hospitals, use—stem cells, nano-technology, artificial and this is a good place to prepare them. hearts, genetic enhancements are only a few Technology seems continually to outpace of the newest ones. Bioethics will have plenty our ability to engage in moral reflection to do for the foreseeable future! K

Juvenile Life Continued from page 11 this issue, even his Supreme Court nominee NOTES Fellowship, the Engaged Zen Foundation, “threw him under the bus.” In the context Quotations come from the Brief of Amici the General Synod of the United Church of of our contemporary public discourse, the Curiae, and from Michael L. Hadley, “Mul- Christ, the Islamic Shura Council of South- importance of the argument of these amici tifaith Reflection on Criminal Justice,” ern California, the Mormons for Equality curiae cannot be overstated. Their insistence introduction to The Spiritual Roots of and Social Justice, the National Council of on the religious centrality of mercy, forgive- Restorative Justice, ed. Michael L. Hadley the Churches of Christ in the United States ness, compassion, and rehabilitation, and (SUNY Press, 2001). of America, the Office of Restorative Justice the relevance of these values to our system of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Prison of justice, is a message rarely heard. K The religious organizations joining in the Fellowship Ministries, and the General amicus curiae brief include the American — Joan Gottschall Board of Church and Society of the United Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Methodist Church, among others. The brief the American Catholic Correctional Chap- was prepared by lawyers at the law firm of lains Association, the American Friends Ser- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, vice Committee, the Buddhist Peace LLP, led by Michael B. deLeeuw.

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how modern people choose their religion, I am asking why so many people feel as if they have no choice to make. In addition to working on the book, I am hoping that the academic year at the Marty Center will be long enough for me to embark on my next project, which addresses the problem of moral consensus in a secular age. Contrary to the usual focus on the clashes between secularisms and religions, I am

“...while the scholars of religion have long been asking why and how modern people choose their religion, I am asking why so many people feel as if they have The Martin Marty Center provides me of people around the globe who were born into with the exciting opportunity to engage with their religious traditions rather than religiously no choice to make.” other scholars whose concerns center on the born again. Their religion is ascribed to them, SLAVIA JACKELIC impact of religion on the public sphere. The rather than chosen by them; it is experienced earliest stages of my dissertation were com- as fixed rather than changeable. I call these pleted at the Marty Center as a junior fellow religions collectivistic religions, because they and I feel lucky to be able to call once again bind individuals to a historically particular interested in the areas of consensus between on the wisdom of other fellows at the center moral community and are never just a matter religious and secular worldviews as well as as I embark on my next book project. of belief. the philosophical, historical, political, and On the one hand, I consider collectivis- institutional conditions conducive for their Slavica Jakelic´ tic religions, most specifically, collectivistic coexistence. Christianities, sociologically and historically, The Martin Marty Center will provide uring my fellowship tenure at the in a range of European contexts. On the an ideal environment for me: this is an inter- Martin Marty Center, I will be other hand, I depart from the philosophical disciplinary institute that brings together Dworking on my book Collectivistic anthropology implied in the notions of scholars concerned with the big questions Religions: Religion, Choice, and Identity in ‘choice,’ ‘religious preference,’ and ‘religious about religion but also attentive to the rele- Late Modernity (under contract with Ashgate). markets,’ as I maintain that people approach vance of such questions for public life. I very The central argument of the book is that religious plurality within certain qualitative much look forward to the conversations and religious pluralization is a condition of late constraints, among which are cultural con- exchanges with other scholars at the center modernity that not only establishes religious texts, historical narratives, and communal and hope to contribute to its intellectual markets based on choice, but also sustains boundaries. Put succinctly, while scholars community with my interdisciplinary back- ascribed religious identities. There are millions of religion have long been asking why and ground and scholarly interests. K

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