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Martin E. Marty Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity in the Divinity School Areas of Expertise:
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Background:
Martin Marty is a historian specializing in late 18th- and 20th-century American religion. Author of more than 50 books, Marty is best known for Righteous Empire (1970), for which he won the National Book Award; the three-volume Modern American Religion (1986, 1991 and 1996); The One and the Many: America's Search for the Common Good (1997); Education, Religion and the Common Good (2000); and Politics, Religion and the Common Good (2000). An ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Marty also is a columnist for Christian Century and the editor of Context. His latest book, When Faiths Collide, came out in early 2005.
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