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Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award

Winners

2007  

Robert N. Bellah, University of California at Berkeley (emeritus)
sociologist of religion and educator whose influential essays and books have for decades helped shape the academic and public discourse on religion and morality in American society

2006  

Andrew M. Greeley, University of Arizona
professor of sociology and frequent public commentator on Catholicism and religion in America.

2005   John L. Esposito, Georgetown University
professor of Islamic studies and founding director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, whose publications and public commentary have enhanced the understanding of Islam
2004    Huston Smith, Syracuse University
professor of religion whose published work has introduced millions to the study of world religions
2003    Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Religion: his many publications have stimulated public discussion about religion, most recently on the public role of American Protestantism
2002    Diana Eck, Harvard University
professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of The Pluralism Project, which documents the growing presence of the Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and Zoroastrian communities in the U.S.
2001    David Knipe, University of Wisconsin at Madison
professor of languages and cultures of Asia and public television producer and public radio commentator on religion
2000    Eileen V. Barker, London School of Economics
sociologist of religion and founder of INFORM, an organization using scholarly research as a basis for informing news media, government officials, and the public about new religious movements
1999    Cornel West, Harvard University
philosopher of religion, writing on issues that particularly confront African Americans
1998    Harvey Cox, Harvard University
sociologist of religion who writes on social and political issues that confront Christianity
1997    Walter Capps (deceased)
psychologist of religion and member of Congress
1996    Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago (emeritus)
historian and frequent public commentator on American religion

 

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