Professor Peter Berger of Boston University will serve as the moderator. Professor Martin is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He is an Honorary Professor at Lancaster University and an International Associate of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University. Sponsoring the series are the Foreign Policy Institute of SAIS and the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The project, consisting of ten lectures in all, is funded by the William and Mary Greve Foundation.
All lectures are open to the public.
A reception will follow the lecture. Although religious fervor in the United States has provoked sharply partisan debate, the global revival of religious conviction has not received systematic attention.