with Lorenzo Albacete, Jon Meacham, George Weigel and more on Apr 18, 2008
R. Scott Appleby is the John M. Regan, Jr., director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and professor of history. He examines the roots of religious violence and the potential of religious peacebuilding. Prof. Appleby teaches courses in American religious history and comparative religious movements. He also is the former director of the University’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, and writes, teaches and speaks frequently on Catholic history and contemporary affairs. Among his recent publications is “The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation.” He also was editor of “Spokesman for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East” (University of Chicago 1997). With Martin E. Marty, he co-edited the five-volume Fundamentalism Project. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985. Source - http://newsinfo.nd.edu/facultydetail.cfm?facultyid=10
