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NOTED SCHOLAR OF MODERN AMERICAN RELIGION TO SPEAK AT OBERLIN COLLEGE APRIL 10
APRIL 3, 2003--Martin E. Marty, one of today's leading interpreters of American religion, will speak at Oberlin College Thursday, April 10. Marty's lecture, "Awash in a Sea of Religious Pluralism," will begin at 12:20 p.m. in West Lecture Hall, in the new Science Center (corner of Lorain and Woodland Streets).
"As a scholar and commentator who has observed the American religious scene for the past three decades, Martin Marty has the breadth of experience and perspective to address the crucial topic of religious pluralism," says Danforth Professor of Religion and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Grover Zinn. "At a time when religions seem to divide people more than unite them, Professor Marty can bring new clarity and understanding to an often troubled area of modern life."
Martin Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of more than 50 books, and has for decades written the "M.E.M.O." commentary column for the nationally known bi-weekly Christian Century. Marty is also editor of the fortnightly publication Context, and is the author of the weekly e-mail column "Sightings."
Marty has received the National Book Award for Righteous Empire, and is the author of the three-volume Modern American Religion. He has also authored The One and the Many: America's Search for the Common Good; Education, Religion and the Common Good; and Politics, Religion, and the Common Good.
The many honors Professor Marty has received include the National Humanities Medal, the Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the University of Chicago Alumni Medal. He is an elected fellow of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
Marty has served as director of both the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Public Religion Project at the University of Chicago. He is currently writing a book on religious pluralism as a global phenomenon.
This lecture is being sponsored by Mead Swing Lectureship Committee.
Media Contact:Sue Angell
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