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Awash in a Sea of Pluralism
Martin E. Marty
Professor
Martin E. Marty is one of the most well known and distinguished scholars
of American religious history in the world.
He is widely sought after as a commentator on contemporary religious trends.
He is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University
of Chicago, where he taught for 35 years and where the Martin E. Marty Center
has been founded to promote "public religion" endeavors. Professor
Marty has authored more than fifty books, including the three-volume Modern
American Religion. He had directed the widely acclaimed Fundamentalism
Project and Public Religion Project and served for many years as Associate
Editor of the Christian Century. For his service to the nation
as interpreter of religion and his many contributions to public life, he
received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton.
Marty’s other honors include the National Book Award, the Medal of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the University of Chicago Alumni Medal, the
Distinguished Service Medal of the Association of Theological Schools, and
the Order of Lincoln Medallion (Illinois’ top honor). He is an elected member
of the American Antiquarian Society and of the Society of American Historians,
an elected fellow of the American Philosophical Society and the American
Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and—a native of that state—is
an admiral in the Nebraska Navy. Marty has received sixty-seven honorary
doctorates.
Marty is past president of the American Academy of Religion, the American
Society of Church History, and the American Catholic Historical Association.
He has served on two U.S. Presidential Commissions
and was 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 has served St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota,
since 1988 as Regent, Board Chair, Interim President in late 2000, and
is now Senior Regent. He was the founding President of the Park Ridge
Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics
and is now the George B. Caldwell Senior Scholar in Residence there.
Program recording date and length: 11-27-01 ~ 1 Hour 35 Minutes ( This study was presented originally at the University of California, Santa Barbara.)
