Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America

Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where for thirty-five years he taught religious history in three faculties. Since 1956 he been on the masthead of the Christian Century and is editor of Context. He specializes in American religious history and headed the six-year show more "Fundamentalism Project" of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the National Medal of Humanities and the medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was honored with the National Book Award for Righteous Empire in 1971. An ordained Lutheran minister, he frequently also writes on theological themes. show less