IN ITS FULLEST SENSE, THE GDR IS ABOUT PEOPLE. Here you will find information about the students, faculty, and alumni of the Graduate Division of Religion.
Faculty
Vernon Robbins, professor of Religion, recently published The Invention of Christian Discourse. He also was appointed to the International Advisory Board of Shanghai VI Horae Publishing at Peking University for the publication of biblical and theological studies in China. He also read an invited paper on "Questions and Answers in the Gospel of Thomas and Related Gospels" at a Conference on Questions and Answer Literature in Antiquity at the University of Ottawa, Canada, in September. Dr. Robbins teaches in the GDR's New Testament course of study.
Gary Laderman, chairperson of Emory's Department of Religion, is the coeditor of the online magazine, ReligionDispatches.org. He recently received a grant of $870,000 from the Ford Foundation for this project. Dr. Laderman teaches in the GDR's American Religious Cultures and Historical Studies courses of study.
Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and a member of the GDR's New Testament course of study, recently published Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity.
Carol Newsom, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament and a member of the GDR's Hebrew Bible course of study, will be receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on November 12, 2009.
Richard C. Martin, professor of Religion and a member of the GDR's West and South Asian Religions course of study, announces that he is co-editor with Abbas Barzegar of Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam. He is also the retiring president of the American Research Center in Egypt. He presented a paper on "Ground Zero as a Pilgrimage Site" at a conference on Modern Pilgrimage in Turku, Finland, in August. In October, Dr. Martin presented a paper on "The Hanif Heritage in the Mu'tazili School of Theology" at the Heritage of Imam-e A'zam Abu Hanifa sponsored by the government of Tajikistan in Dushanbe.
Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching and a member of the GDR's Person, Community, and Religious Life course of study, announces the publication of his recent work, Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral. An excerpt of the book appeared as the cover article for the October 6 issues of the Christian Century.
Thomas E. Frank, professor of Leadership and Administration and coordinator of the Lilly Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology and a member of the GDR's Person, Community, and Religious Life course of study, is the director of the Board of Directors of Partners of Sacred Places. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Partners is the only non-profit organization devoted to advocacy, research, education, and resources for congregations with historic houses of worship.
Other Recent GDR News
David Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Jewish Studies in the GDR's Jewish Religious Cultures course of study, announces that his book, The Banality of Good and Evil, has been translated into French. He also continues to be one of the few non-science and non-European members of the European Academy of Sciences.
Don Seeman, associate professor of Religion in the GDR's Jewish Religious Cultures course of study, announces that his book, One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelites and the Return to Judaism, has been nominated for the Sami Rohr Prize.
Paul Root Wolpe, director of the Emory Center for Ethics and a member of the GDR's Ethics and Society course of study, was recently elected a fellow of the Hastings Center, the oldest bioethics institute in the United States.
Martin Buss, professor of Religion emeritus and former member of the GDR's Hebrew Bible course of study, was awarded a Heilbrun fellowship (2009-2010) to write on the structure of Hebrew Bible law and ethics, in which verbal form, ideas, and social role are correlated to a considerable extent.
