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2003-2004 Research Grant Winners

Collaborative

Jonathan R. Herman, Georgia State University
From Tao to Dialogue: Martin Buber's Encounter with Laozi

Collaborator:
Maurice Friedman, San Diego State University

David G. Hunter, Iowa State University
Ambrosiaster, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles

Collaborators:
Stephen A. Cooper, Franklin and Marshall College
Theodore de Bryun, Ottawa, Ontario

Individual

Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College
Bodies of Saints: Religion and Society in the Late Medieval Islamic East

Sid Brown, University of the South
Violence at the Intersection: Understanding American Buddhism Through the 1991 Arizona Thai Temple Massacre

Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University
Ritual Gone Wrong

Daniel J. Meckel, Case Western Reserve University
Gods in the Family: Possession and the Coming of Age in the Hindu Himalaya

Jin Y. Park, American University
Pojo Chinul and Hwada Meditation in Korean Buddhism

Sally M. Promey, University of Maryland
The Public Display of Religion in the United States

Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh, DePaul University
Workers for the Harvest: Latino Pentecostal Migrant Workers during the Dust Bowl

Valerie Stoker, Wright State University
Harming the Common Good: A Kirpan Case in Quebec

Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University
Judaism and the History of Vedic Sacrifice

Janet H. Tulloch, Carleton University
Hearing the Female Voice in Early Christian Art and Archaeology: the Links between Roman-Trier 'Speaking Cups' and Inscribed Speech on Early Christian Banquet Scenes

Nelly van Doorn Harder, Valparaiso University
History of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchs in the nineteenth and twentieth century

 

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