The Louisville Institute

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Dissertation Fellowship - 2006 Grantees

Jennifer Ryan Ayres
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
With an Urgency Born of This Hope..: A Constructive Practical Theology of Reformed Christian Social Witness Practice

Seth Andrew Dowland
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Christianity and Masculinity on Tobacco Road: Gender, Order, and the Bible in the Recent South, 1965-2000

Brantley Wade Gasaway
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
An Alternative Soul of Politics: The Rise of Contemporary Progressive Evangelicalism

Conrad Hackett
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Religion and Fertility in the United States

Charlene Jin Lee
Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
Life-Breathed Curriculum: Reconceptualizing Christian Education Through Autobiography

Nancy J. Martin
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Small Groups in Big Churches

Jennifer M. McBride
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
The Church "for the World": Confession of Sin as the Privileged Church's Sociopolitical Praxis

Bruce Rittenhouse
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Shopping for Meaningful Lives: A Christian Existential Reinterpretation of the Moral Motivation of Consumerism Through the Theology of Paul Tillich

Tobin M. Shearer
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
The Danger of Purity: How White Mennonites Maintained Racial Distance, 1940 to 1971

Josef Sorett
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Spirit Soundings: Religion, Race and the Arts in Twentieth Century America