Participants

The Project, based at Columbia Theological Seminary and supported by the Lilly Endowment, consists of three groups.  Eight scholars, historians of American religion, are writing monographs on topics in the material and economic history of American religion.  Several senior scholars in the field will advise and critique their work.  A group of religions leaders, representative of the diversity of American religious institutions, will help to make the Project's investigations responsive to the needs of their communities.

Scholars:
R. Marie Griffith
James Hudnut-Beumler
Colleen McDannell
Robert Orsi
Daniel Sack
Leigh Eric Schmidt
David Harrington Watt
Judith Weisenfeld
Diane Winston

Advisors:
R. Scott Appleby
E. Brooks Holifield
Peter Williams

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