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April 16, 2007


World-Renowned Religion Scholar Marty to Speak at Boise State May 10

Martin Marty, a world-renowned scholar of religion and Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago will present “Everyone Gets In On the Act: Connecting Faiths and the Environment” at 7 p.m. May 10 in the Jordan Ballroom of the Student Union at Boise State University. The event is free and open to the public.

Marty is the author of more than 50 books, including “Righteous Empire,” for which he won the National Book Award, and “The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism.” He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Humanities Medal and has served on two U.S. presidential commissions. He was the director of the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Public Religion Project at the University of Chicago. His lecture is sponsored by Boise State’s Arts and Humanities Residential College, the Idaho Humanities Council, and the Idaho Conservation League.

The program is supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council, a state-based program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, contact Boise State assistant history professor Lisa Brady at 426-4309.

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Contact: Lisa Brady, History, (208) 426-4309, lisabrady@boisestate.edu 
Media Contact: Bob Evancho, University Communications, (208) 426-1643, bevanch@boisestate.edu 

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