2005-06 Marty Center Fellows Announced

 

The Martin Marty Center, continuing its emphasis on global and political aspects of religion, will have 4 senior fellows and 14 junior fellows in 2005-2006. For a full list of fellows and a list of past fellows, please visit the archive.

The senior fellows for 2005-2006 are:

Andrea Althoff, who comes to us from Berlin, fresh from her successful doctoral exams, and will be working on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the Protestant Pentecostal Movement among new immigrants in Chicago.

Celia Brickman, of the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago, who published her prize-winning book, Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press) in 2003 (based on the Ph. D. dissertation she did in Swift Hall) and will be working on modern and contemporary western constructions of religion from the perspectives of psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, and (gender and) critical race theory.

Joseph Prabhu, from the Department of Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles, author of The Intercultural Challenge of Raimon Panikkar (Orbis Books, 1996) and (co-edited with P. Bilimoria) Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges (Ashgate Press, 2005), who will be working on “Hegel, India, and the Dark Face of Modernity.”

Winnifred Sullivan, author of The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2005) and Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 1994), who will be working on "Comparing Religions, Legally." This project considers how different legal systems, or parts of legal systems, talk about religion comparatively—depending on where they fall in a continuum from "established" to "disestablished." It will compare the U.S., the U.K., and France.

Of our 14 junior fellows, 10 are our own Divinity School students and the other 4 are working outside of the Divinity School, but with Divinity School faculty. The Divinity School fellows:

Catherine Adcock, History of Religions
“Contested Categories: Religion and Politics in the Arya Samaj”

Anthony Cerulli, History of Religions
“Somatic Lessons: Mythic Discourse on the Body and Embodiment in Classical Indian Medical Literature.”

Annette Huizenga, Biblical Studies
“What’s a Woman To Do?: Training Women to Virtue in the Pastoral Epistles and Texts by Pythagorean Women.”

Rory Johnson, Psychology & Sociology of Religion
“The Persistent Conversation: Religion, Communication and Community.”

Karin Meyers, Philosophy of Religions
“Free Will and Causal Determinism in Indian Scholastic Buddhism: Can We Decide to Become More Compassionate and Are We Free to Become Liberated?”

Lisa Perez, History of Religions
“Without Illness the Gods Would Die: Healing and Conversion to Santería in the Urban Midwest”

Steven Sacks, History of Judaism
“’In His Hand is a Sceptre of Fire, and a Veil is Spread Before Him:’ The Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Exposition of Medieval Midrash.”

Joyce Shin, Religious Ethics
“Faith in an Age of Cultural Pluralism: An Aesthetic Approach to Transformation.”

Alex Vishio, Religious Ethics
“The Logic of All-Inclusivity: Toward a Revisionary Understanding of the Divine-World Relation.”

Courtney Wilder, Theology
“Existentialism and Exegesis: Being and the Bible in Bultmann and Tillich.”

The four extradepartmental fellows:

Fanny Dolansky, Department of Classics
"Ritual, Gender, and Status in the Roman Family"

David Possen, Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy
"Søren Kierkegaard and the Very Idea of Advance Beyond Socrates"

Adam Shapiro, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
"Biology Textbook Publishing in the Scopes Era"

Justin Tiwald, Committee on Social Thought
"Acquiring 'Feelings that Do Not Err': Moral Deliberation and the Sympathetic Point of View in the Ethics of Dai Zhen"