http://www.aarweb.org/programs/grants/Research/2005-2006winners.asp

2005-2006 Research Grant Winners

Collaborative

Georges Dreyfus, Williams College
A Web-Based Study of Drepung Monastery

Collaborator:

  • David Germano, University of Virginia

Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan
Modernity, University, the Science of Religion: History of the Study of Religion in Japan, 1877-2000

Collaborator:

  • Jun’ichi Isomae, Japan Women’s University

Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
Catholics in the Movies

Collaborators:

  • Robert Sklar, New York University
  • Lary May, University of Minnesota
  • Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College
  • Thomas Ferraro, Duke University
  • Paula Kane, University of Pittsburgh
  • Anthony Smith, University of Dayton
  • Theresa Sanders, Georgetown University
  • Jeffrey Marlett, College of St. Rose
  • Carlo Rotella, Boston College
  • Peter Gardella, Manhattanville College
  • James Fisher, Fordham University and Curran Center for American Catholic Studies
  • Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
  • Amy Frykholm, Colorado Mountain College
  • Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America
  • Darryl V. Caterine, LeMoyne College

Individual

Grace G. Burford, Prescott College
B. Horner and the Transmission of Buddhism to the West

Jamsheed K. Choksy, Indiana University, Bloomington
Whither the Zoroastrian Minority Amidst Sectarian Sociopolitics in Contemporary Iran

Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California
Altared States: A Cultural History of the Japanese American Home Shrine

Meritxell Martin-I-Pardo, The University of the South
The Role of Multicultural Festivals in the Creation of Hindu Discourses of Religious Self-Representation

David L. McMahan, Franklin and Marshall College
The Making of Modern Buddhism

Lori Pearson, Carleton College
Gendered Elements in Troeltsch's Theories of Protestantism and Modernity

Michael Penn, Mount Holyoke College
Imaging Islam: Syriac Christian Responses to the Islamic Conquest

Craig R. Prentiss, Rockhurst University
"Terrible, Laughing God": Challenging Divine Justice in African-American Anti-Lynching Plays, 1916-1945

Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University
Preemptive Justice? Just Cause, Unrealized Threats, and the Grounds of War

Omid Safi, Colgate University
The Many Lives of Rumi - Textual and Oral

Julius N. Tsai, Texas Christian University
The Cult of the Master in Late Tang Daoism

Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University, Columbus
Matrix of Power: Blood, Kingship, and Sacrifice in the Worship of Mother Goddess Kamakhya

 

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