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Martin Emil Marty (b. February 5, 1928, West Point, Nebraska
West Point, Nebraska

West Point is a city in and the county seat of Cuming County, Nebraska, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,660 at the United States Census, 2000....
) is an American
United States

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 Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on 19th century and 20th century American religion
Religion

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
. He received a Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
 in 1956, and served as a Lutheran pastor from 1952 to 1962 in the suburbs of Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School
University of Chicago Divinity School

The University of Chicago Divinity School is a graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries....
, held an endowed chair, and now holds emeritus status.

He has served St. Olaf College
St. Olaf College

St. Olaf College is a coeducational, residential, four-year, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Northfield, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus....
 in Northfield, Minnesota since 1988 as Regent, Board Chair, Interim President in late 2000, and now as Senior Regent.






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Martin Emil Marty (b. February 5, 1928, West Point, Nebraska
West Point, Nebraska

West Point is a city in and the county seat of Cuming County, Nebraska, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,660 at the United States Census, 2000....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on 19th century and 20th century American religion
Religion

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
. He received a Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
 in 1956, and served as a Lutheran pastor from 1952 to 1962 in the suburbs of Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School
University of Chicago Divinity School

The University of Chicago Divinity School is a graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries....
, held an endowed chair, and now holds emeritus status.

He has served St. Olaf College
St. Olaf College

St. Olaf College is a coeducational, residential, four-year, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Northfield, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus....
 in Northfield, Minnesota since 1988 as Regent, Board Chair, Interim President in late 2000, and now as Senior Regent. He has been a columnist for The Christian Century magazine since 1956. He has authored over 5,000 articles and been conferred with 75 honorary doctorates. His published works include Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1970), for which he won the National Book Award
National Book Award

The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award"....
, the encyclopedic five-volume Fundamentalism Project
The Fundamentalism Project

The Fundamentalism Project, which was sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was an international scholarly investigation of conservative religious movements throughout the world....
, co-edited with historian R. Scott Appleby, and the biography, Martin Luther (2004). Marty is the father of Minnesota State Senator John Marty
John Marty

John J. Marty is a member of the Minnesota Senate, representing Senate District 54, and a Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2010....
. and of the Rev. Peter Marty who is currently the host of the ELCA radio ministry Grace Matters.

Bibliography

  • Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1970) Harper Torchbook 1977 paperback: ISBN 0-06-131931-7
  • Modern American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    • Volume 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919 (1986) ISBN 0-226-50893-5
    • Volume 2: The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941 (1990) ISBN 0-226-50895-1
    • Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960 (1996) ISBN 0-226-50899-4
  • Religion and Republic: The American Circumstance (1987) Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-1206-8
  • The Fundamentalism Project, Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Editors
    • Volume 1:Fundamentalisms Observed, Marty/Appleby, (1991) ISBN 0-226-50878-1
    • Volume 2:Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education, Marty/Appleby/Hardacre/Mendelsohn, (1993) ISBN 0-226-50881-1
    • Volume 3:Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance, Marty/Appleby/Garvey/Kuran, (1993) ISBN 0-226-50884-6
    • Volume 4:Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements, Marty/Appleby/Ammerman/Frykenberg/Heilman/Piscatori, (1994) ISBN 0-226-50886-2
    • Volume 5:Fundamentalisms Comprehended, Marty/Appleby, (1995) ISBN 0-226-50888-9
  • Martin Luther (The Penguin Lives Series). New York: Viking (2004) ISBN 0-670-03272-7


Additional biographical source: Martin E. Marty. "Half a Life in Religious Studies: Confessions of an 'Historical Historian'." Pp. 151-174 in The Craft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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