Scott Appleby Session Overview

SCOTT APPLEBY is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs and Interim Director of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion in the Keough School of Global Affairs at Notre Dame. Appleby’s research examines how religious movements and organizations shape and are shaped by national, regional, and global governance dynamics, deadly conflict, international relations, and economic development. His many publications include The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation; Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World; Catholics in the American Century; and Peacebuilding: Catholic Theology, Ethics and Praxis. He is also the co-editor, with Martin E. Marty, of the five-volume interdisciplinary public policy study known as The Fundamentalism Project.
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