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Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, of the History of Modern Christianity at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. One of America's foremost theologians and religious historians and the author of more than 45 books, Marty was one of the first 10 recipients of the National Humanities Medal bestowed by US President William Clinton in 1997. Marty is the director of the Public Religion Project Linking Religion and American Public Life—funded by Pew Charitable Trusts—the senior editor of the weekly Christian Century and the editor of the newsletter Context.

Marty was Project Director for the five-year Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which studied comparative fundamentalist religious movements around the world. He won the national book award for Righteous Empire. Marty received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956.

—Source: www.stfx.ca/pinstitutes/ccls/1994-1995.html

Recommended Reading

Fundamentalisms Observed edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleb

 

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