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Sabbatical Grant for Researchers Awards
Beth Allison Barr
Baylor University
Project:
Left Behind: How Southern Baptists Forgot Medieval History and Why It Matters for Women
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Candy G Brown
Indiana University
Project:
A Critical Biography of U.S. Catholic Charismatic Francis MacNutt, 1925-2020: Examining Lived Religion through Embodiment
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Joao B Chaves
Baylor University
Project:
Migration, Money, and Mission: Immigrant Christians and Global Proclamation
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Miguel A De La Torre
Iliff School of Theology
Project:
El Camino: The Tourismization of Spirituality
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Joseph Flipper
University of Dayton
Project:
The Black Catholic Movement and the Fight for the Local Church
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Melanee C. Harvey
Department of Art, Howard University
Project:
Patterns of Permanence: African Methodist Episcopal Architecture and Visual Culture
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Darrius Hills
Grinnell College
Project:
A Tale of Two Cities: Muscular Christianity and Red Pill Masculinity
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K. Elise Leal Henreckson
Whitworth University
Project:
Holy Nurseries: Sunday Schools and the Creation of Childhood in Early American Protestantism
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Jin Young Choi
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
Project:
The Mystery of the Divine Economy: Reading Mark in Times of Global Crises
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George Faithful
Dominican University of California
Project:
The Dark Nights of Grey Souls: 'Both/And' and 'Neither/Nor' Identities in Saint Juan (a.k.a. John) of the Cross
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Alison Collis Greene
Candler School of Theology
Project:
Backwater: Religion, Race, and Justice in a Jim Crow Swamp
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Cory W. Hunter
University of Rochester/Eastman School of Music
Project:
Spiritual Realism in Black Gospel Music Discourse and Practice
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Joel Bernard Kemp
Emory University's Candler School of Theology
Project:
Blackness in 3D: Biblical Race, American Law, and Contemporary Crises
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Vanessa L. Lovelace
Lancaster Theological Seminary
Project:
A Womanist Podcast for Womanish Women and Their Friends Engaged in Conversations about the Bible
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Aprilfaye Manalang
Norfolk State University
Project:
Filipino American Nurses: Faith and Professional Communities in the Age of COVID and Anti-Asian Hate
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Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango
Hood Theological Seminary
Project:
The Privileging of Some Men and the Marginalization of All Women: A Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Book of Numbers
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Gilberto A. Ruiz
Saint Anselm College
Project:
Formation and Identity in Contemporary Cuban-American Literature and the New Testament
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Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones
Boston College
Project:
See No Evil: Technology, Violence, and a Theology of Black Being
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Jared E. Alcántara
George W. Truett Theological Seminary
Project:
Joseph H. Jackson: Enigmatic Leader, Dynamic Preacher, Cautionary Tale
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Peter Joseph Casarella
Duke Divinity
Project:
The Spirit of the People: A Latinx, Ecumenical Pneumatology
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Jennifer Allen Craft
Point University
Project:
Sins of Place: Christian Theology and the Practices of Placemaking
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Courtney T Goto
Boston University School of Theology
Project:
Relating Across Race: From Reacting to Acting to Relating
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Christine Jean Hong
Columbia Theological Seminary
Project:
The Stories We Never Tell: Orature with AAPI Women in the Church
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Janna L. Hunter-Bowman
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Project:
Beyond sanctuary: new orientations for church support of immigrant communities
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Emmanuel Katongole
University of Notre Dame
Project:
Sowing Hope: Integral Ecology and Theological Peacebuilding
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Eunjoo Mary Kim
Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Project:
Preaching Jesus: Postcolonial Approaches
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Dawne Moon
Marquette University
Project:
Living in the Tension: What the Conservative Protestant LGBT+ Movement Teaches Us About Toxic Shame, Love, and Justice
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Roger S. Nam
Candler School of Theology
Project:
The Economics of Diaspora
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Andrea L. Turpin
Baylor University
Project:
A Debate of Their Own: Women in the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
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Kim Marie Vaz-Deville
Xavier University of Louisiana
Project:
Masked in Mardi Gras: The Sacred Visual Art of African American New Orleans Carnival
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Anne Marie Wolf
University of Maine - Farmington
Project:
Learning about Peace from the Middle Ages: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Insights
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Paul Kang-Kul Cho
Wesley Theological Seminary
Project:
Horror We Know: Tradition, Trauma, and Transformation in the Book of Job
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Lisa E. Dahill
California Lutheran University
Project:
Rewilding Life Together: Bonhoeffer, Spirituality, and Interspecies Community
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Jeannine Hill Fletcher
Fordham University
Project:
Grace of the Ghosts: A Theology of Reparation
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Jane Hong
Occidental College
Project:
Model Christians, Model Minorities: Asian Americans, Race, and Politics in the Transformation of U.S. Evangelicalism
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Theresa Keeley
University of Louisville
Project:
Suffer Little Children: Health, Harm, & U.S. Foreign Policy
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David Manuel Lantigua
University of Notre Dame
Project:
The Earth is the Lord's: Mammon and Popular Social Catholicism in the Global Age of Pope Francis
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Jacqueline J. Lewis
Middle Collegiate Church
Project:
Repairing the Breach: An ethnographic study of Black Folks Religion, its role in the Southern Freedom Movement of the 20th Century, and how it might dismantle white nationalism in the Church today
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Luis Menéndez-Antuña
Boston University
Project:
New Testament Studies After the Cultural Turn. Thinking Biblical Literature in the Midst of Global Crises
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Timothy James Sandoval
Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University
Project:
Tobit's Dog and Qohelet's Dinner: Satire, Identity, and Justice in Hellenistic Epoch Jewish Texts
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Angela Tarango
Trinity University
Project:
Los Hijos de Juan y Carlos Wesley: Tejano Methodism, Material Culture, and the Creation of a Tejano Methodist Identity at San Antonio’s La Trinidad United Methodist Church.
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Ralph Basui Watkins
Columbia Theological Seminary
Project:
The African American Church Seeing Hope in the Rainbow: A Year in the life of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries
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Deanna Ferree Womack
Candler School of Theology at Emory University
Project:
Imaging Islam: Gender, Race, and American Protestant Encounters with Muslims
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Daniel Castillo
Loyola University Maryland
Project:
"I Have Seen": God-Talk and Christian Praxis in the Anthropocene
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Emily Clark
Gonzaga University
Project:
American Spiritualism and Material Culture
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John T Fitzgerald
University of Notre Dame
Project:
Jesus' Last Will and Testament: Friendship, Wills, and the Fourth Gospel
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Melissa Guzman
San Francisco State University
Project:
Redemption and Rehabilitation in Latino Pentecostal Street Ministries
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Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Earlham School of Religion
Project:
Reverend Jesse Jackson: A Theological Journey
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Andrew Manis
Middle Georgia State University
Project:
"Outside Agitator" Times Two: Father Soterios Gouvellis and the Greek-American Community during Birmingham's Civil Rights Struggle
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Joseph A Marchal
Ball State University
Project:
Assembling Affects: From Disgust to Solidarity After Paul’s Letters
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Leonard McKinnis
University of Illinois
Project:
Divine Blackness: Christian Imagination in Overcoming Racism
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Michael J. McVicar
Florida State University
Project:
God’s Watchers: Surveillance and Religion in the United States from the Civil War to the Cold War
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Katherine D. Moran
Saint Louis University
Project:
California Magdalens: Catholicism, the State, and the History of Women’s Incarceration, 1850-1940
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Michelle Nickerson
Loyola University Chicago
Project:
Catholic Resistance: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial
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Luis R Rivera
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Project:
The Journey and Legacy of US Protestant Latinx Theological Movement
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Paul Scherz
The Catholic University of America
Project:
Risk, Virtue, and Theology
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Jonathan Y. Tan
Case Western Reserve University
Project:
Beyond Model Minority, Privilege, and Power: Rethinking and Transforming Asian American Theologies
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David Harrington Watt
Haverford College
Project:
Ethical Struggles in Catastrophic Times: Quakers' Responses to the Holocaust, 1933-1945
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Todd David Whitmore
University of Notre Dame
Project:
Christianity and the Opioid Crisis: Race, Class, and Moral Sorting in America
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Ruth Braunstein
University of Connecticut
Project:
Religion, Taxpaying, and the Contested Meaning of Political Community in the U.S.
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Laurie Brink
Catholic Theological Union
Project:
Redeeming Jesus: The Role of Scripture in the New Cosmology
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Elizabeth W. Corrie
Emory University, Candler School of Theology
Project:
Youth Ministry as Peace Education: Cultivating Faith that Overcomes Silence and Transforms Violence
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Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Project:
When the Good Life Goes Bad: The Seven Deadly Sins in the Trump Era
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Jennifer Harvey
Drake University
Project:
White Church at the Crossroads
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Davina C. Lopez
Eckerd College
Project:
American Women in Biblical Scholarship: History between Colleges & Churches
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Wes Markofski
Carleton College
Project:
Good News for the Common Good: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America
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Kelly Murphy
Central Michigan University
Project:
Open Your Hand to the Poor: How We Hear the Bible’s Many Voices
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Travis Proctor
Wittenberg College
Project:
Multispecies and Posthuman Perspectives on the Body of Jesus
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Katrina M Sanders
The University of Iowa College of Education
Project:
The Rise and Fall of Black Catholic Education in a Changing South, 1886-1976
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Sunggu Yang
George Fox University
Project:
The New Art of Preaching: An Aesthetic Homiletic for the 21st Century
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Erika Marie Bsumek
University of Texas, Austin
Project:
"Damming Zion: Race, Religion, and Environmental Stewardship on the Colorado Plateau, 1800 to 1980."
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Esther Chung-Kim
Claremont McKenna College
Project:
Poverty, Wealth and Social Change
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Wilda Gafney
Brite Divinity School
Project:
A Woman’s Lectionary
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Tim Hartman
Columbia Theological Seminary
Project:
Apostle to the West: the theology of Kwame Bediako
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Derek Hicks
Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Project:
Feeding Flesh and Spirit: Religion, Food, and Race in Black American Life
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Jacqueline Hidalgo
Williams College
Project:
Latinx Theologies and Religious Pluralism
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Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty
Bellarmine University
Project:
SEEKING MORE THAN DUTIFUL LOVE: GOD’S HEALING IN THE CONTEXT OF FAMILIES AFFECTED BY MENTAL ILLNESS
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Vincent William Lloyd
Villanova University
Project:
Black Dignity
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Margaret Kim Peterson
Project:
Making Peace with Mortality: Cultivating Faith, Hope, and Love toward the End of Life
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Shelly L. Rambo
Boston University School of Theology
Project:
Educating Religious Leaders for the "New Normal"
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Calvin College
Project:
“Journey of Faith: A Religious History of Hillary Rodham Clinton”
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Jennie Grillo
University of Notre Dame
Project:
Martyrdom, Idolatry, Liturgy: The Afterlives of the Apocryphal Daniel
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Ramon Gutierrez
University of Chicago
Project:
“The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in Colonial New Mexico, 1581-1680: Anti-Judaism on New Spain’s Frontier”
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Thomas John Lappas
Nazareth College of Rochester
Project:
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and Native American Communities in the United States, 1873-1933
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Omar M. McRoberts
University of Chicago
Project:
BLACK PUBLIC RELIGION AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY: Influences of the State on the Churches from the New Deal Through Welfare Reform
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Carolyn Marie Medine
University of Georgia
Project:
The "Face of the Other" in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas and St. Clare of Assisi: Social Justice and the Racialized Other
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Albert G Miller
Oberlin College
Project:
Fundamentally Black
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Kristy Nabhan-Warren
University of Iowa
Project:
Cornbelt Catholicism: Brown, White and Religious in the Heartland
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Quincy D. Newell
Hamilton College
Project:
Marginal Mormons: African Americans and Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Robert Chao Romero
UCLA
Project:
The "Brown Church": Towards a Latina/o Christian Social Justice History and Identity
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Felicia Song
Westmont College
Project:
Digital Discontent: Radical Acts of Recovering Presence, Place and Human Flourishing
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Victor Thasiah
California Lutheran University
Project:
Christianity and Community Organizing
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Christopher Daniel Tirres
DePaul University
Project:
Mestizo/a Spiritualities across the Latino/a Americas: Spiritual-Philosophical Profiles
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Aana Marie Vigen
Loyola University Chicago
Project:
The Complicated Quest for a Healthy Baby: Christian Ethics in Conversation with Genetic Counselors & New Mothers from Underrepresented Communities
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Nancy deClaisse-Walford
McAfee School of Theology
Project:
Reading the Book of Psalms through the Lens of Humanity's Often Marginalized and Unheard Voices
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Phyllis D Airhart
Emmanuel College, Victoria University
Project:
“The Crisis of Faith in Fellowship in the United Church of Canada, 1950-1990”
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Daniela C Augustine
University of Birmingham
Project:
The Spirit in Word and Sacrament: Toward a Pentecostal Sacramental Theology
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Miguel A De La Torre
Iliff School of Theology
Project:
The Political Theology of José Martí
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Walter Earl Fluker
Boston University
Project:
The Sound of the Genuine: Howard Thurman's Sermon Series
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Rita George-Tvrtkovic
Benedictine University
Project:
Christians, Muslims, and Mary: A History
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Jennifer L Graber
University of Texas at Austin
Project:
Indian Country: Westward Expansion and the Transformation of American Religion
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Paul C. Lim
Vanderbilt University
Project:
Evangelical Rescue? Global Christianity, Human Trafficking and Ecclesial Ethical Responsibility
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Andrew L Prevot
Boston College
Project:
Christ Who Lives in Me: Mysticism, Feminism, and Ordinary Life
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Leopoldo A Sanchez
Concordia Seminary
Project:
Spirit Christology and Models of Sanctification
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Deanna A Thompson
St. Olaf College:
Project:
Glimpses of Resurrection: A Post-Traumatic Theology of Cancer
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Brittany E Wilson
Duke University Divinity School
Project:
The Embodied God: Corporeality in Acts and the Early Church
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Kate Bowler
Duke Divinity School
Project:
Co-Pastor: A History of a Modern American Icon
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Natalie M Carnes
Baylor University
Project:
Christ the Iconoclastic Image: The Negations and Revelations of Images
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Gregory C. Ellison
Emory University, Candler School of Theology
Project:
Between Fearless Dialogues and the Search for Common Ground
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John Fea
Messiah College
Project:
Everyday Christianity: An American History
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Daniel G Groody
University of Notre Dame
Project:
Passing Over: Migration, Theology and the Eucharist
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Jeannine Hill Fletcher
Fordham University
Project:
Love in a Weighted World: On Christian Hegemony and White Supremacy
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Max J Lee
North Park Theological Seminary
Project:
Food, Sex, and Entertainment: Paul and the Epicureans on the Ethics of Pleasure
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Daniel A Madigan
Georgetown University
Project:
Christian Theology Responsive to Islam
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Richard N. Pitt
University of California @ San Diego
Project:
Church Planters: Orientations, Opportunities, and Outcomes of Religion Entrepreneurship
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Jason Andrew Springs
University of Notre Dame
Project:
Restorative Justice and the New Jim Crow
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Julius H. Bailey
University of Redlands
Project:
The Rise and History of Black Megachurches
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Mary Louise Bringle
Brevard College
Project:
Whatever Became of Envy?
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Peter Joseph Casarella
Duke Divinity
Project:
God of the People: A Latino/a Theology
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Jonathan H. Ebel
University of Illinois
Project:
A Wandering Oklahoman Was My Father: Religion, Migration, and America's Great Depression
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Wendy Farley
Emory University
Project:
Wandering Home: Women Contemplatives and the Contemporary Church
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Michael E. Lee
Fordham University
Project:
Down From His Throne: Oscar Romero's Mystical-Prophetic Spirituality
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Elaine Padilla
New York Theological Seminary
Project:
On the Darkness of Being
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Melanie C Ross
Yale Divinity School and Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Project:
Varieties of Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic
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Leah Sarat
Arizona State University
Project:
Faith Behind Bars: Encountering Immigrant Detention in Arizona
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Norman R. Wirzba
Duke Divinity School
Project:
A Human Place in the World: Christian Imagination and Life in a Post-Natural Age
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Sarah Azaransky
Union Theological Seminary
Project:
They Wore Traveling Shoes: Religious Black Internationalism and the Roots of Civil Rights, 1936-1956
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Beth Allison Barr
Baylor University
Project:
Weak and Silent Vessels: The Impact of the English Bible on Christian Women
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Ellen T. Charry
Princeton Theological Seminary
Project:
Positive Theology
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Heather D. Curtis
Tufts University
Project:
Holy Humanitarians: American Protestants and Global Aid
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Peter Dula
Eastern Mennonite University
Project:
Friendship in the Gospels
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Douglas Jacobsen
Messiah College
Project:
Global Christianity: An Introduction
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Daniel A. Rodriguez
Pepperdine University
Project:
Multigenerational and Multilingual Hispanic Youth Ministry: Trends, Challenges and Creative Models
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Timothy James Sandoval
Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University
Project:
Latino/a Biblical Hermeneutic Perspectives
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Gerald W. Schlabach
University of St. Thomas (MN)
Project:
Toward a Catholic Peace Church
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Paul S. Wilson
Emmanuel College, University of Toronto
Project:
Preaching as Poetry in an Age of Math
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Gillian Ahlgren
Xavier University
Project:
Beyond the Dark Night: Theological and Spiritual Resources for Trauma Recovery
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David Cloutier
The Catholic University of America
Project:
The Problem with Luxury: A Neglected Aspect of Christian Economic Ethics
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Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Calvin College
Project:
Resistance to the Demands of Love: Reflections on the Vice of Sloth
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Penny A. Edgell
University of Minnesota
Project:
Ritual and Renewal in a Local Religious Ecology
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Christine J. Gardner
Wheaton College
Project:
Homosexuality and the Christian College Student
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Mary Catherine Hilkert
University of Notre Dame
Project:
Words of Spirit and Life: Theology, Preaching, and Spirituality
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Jonathan Malesic
King\'s College
Project:
Why Work: A Christian Work Ethic for Post-Industrial, Post-Protestant America
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Kevin J. O'Brien
Pacific Lutheran University
Project:
Prophets Meet Profits: Christian Environmentalism and Free Markets
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Aristotle Papanikolaou
Fordham University
Project:
The Ascetics of War: The Undoing and Redoing of Virtue
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Rebecca E. Sager
Loyola Marymount University
Project:
Fierce Faith? The Battle over Faith and Politics in the United States
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John E. Sanders
Hendrix College
Project:
Cognitive Linguistics and Theological Reasoning
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William W. Young
Endicott College
Project:
Listening, Religion and Democracy
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Jennifer Erin Beste
College of St. Benedict and St. John's University
Project:
Hookup Culture: A Christian Ethical Analysis
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James F. Caccamo
Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia
Project:
Rewiring Virtue: The Christian Life in an Age of Gadgets
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Kimberly Bracken Long
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Project:
A Practical Theology of Christian Marriage
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Barbara J. McClure
Brite Divinity School
Project:
Rethinking Feelings: Understanding the Complexities of Emotion and the Implications for Pastoral Care and Counseling
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L. Edward Phillips
Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Project:
Christ and Mammon: A Liturgical History
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Priscilla Pope-Levison
Southern Methodist University
Project:
After the Altar Call: Women's Institution Building
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Jeremy Schipper
Temple University
Project:
Disability and Isaiah's Suffering Servant
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Steven M. Tipton
Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Project:
The Life to Come: Re-Creating Retirement
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Susan M. Windley-Daoust
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Project:
The Theology of the Body, Extended: The Spiritual Signs of Childbirth, Disability, and Death
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Claire Elizabeth Wolfteich
Boston University
Project:
Bridging the Gap: Spiritual Traditions and the Quotidian Practices of Lay Women
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Nancy T. Ammerman
Boston University
Project:
Sacred Stories: Spirituality and Religion in Everyday Life
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Gary A. Anderson
University of Notre Dame
Project:
A Treasury in Heaven
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Calvin College
Project:
The Forgotten Woman's Bible
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Elizabeth T. Groppe
Xavier University
Project:
Guarding the Flame of the Grandeur of God: Christian Life and Practice in an Era of Ecological Crisis
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Christopher B. Hays
Fuller Theological Seminary
Project:
Hidden Riches: A New Inquiry into the Comparative Study of the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East
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Robert A. Krieg
University of Notre Dame
Project:
Christ and Judaism: A Spectrum of Catholic Theologies
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Rhonda Mawhood Lee
Self-employed
Project:
And the Greatest of These is Love: The Marriage of George and Jean Edwards
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Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Project:
Lived Theology: Understanding Its Politics, Rehabilitating Its Place
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Douglas F. Ottati
Davidson College
Project:
A Systematic Theology for Liberal Protestants
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R. Kendall Soulen
Wesley Theological Seminary
Project:
The Divine Name(s) and the Holy Trinity
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