For further information about Professor Wildberg's project, go here . Fellows should be engaged in projects of value to the ways in which American Christians live and practice their faith, or to congregations and pastoral leadership. Fellows will conduct own research on historical or contemporary aspects of Christian thought and practice, attend a weekly interdisciplinary workshop, and participate in an annual symposium for scholars, clergy, and community leaders. Fellows should be engaged in projects concerning the social and cultural implications of theology in response to heightened awareness of religious pluralism. Fellows will conduct own research, attend a weekly interdisciplinary workshop, hold regular meetings with a member of the Princeton faculty who serves as a host and mentor for the year, and participate in an annual symposium for scholars, clergy, and community leaders.
Eligibility requires some training in theology or equivalent knowledge.
Candidates should be working either on women of African descent in the U.S., or those in the Americas more broadly, which may include the Caribbean, South America, or Canada. Candidates with broad synthetic and theoretical interests in the model of diasporic religious change will be especially attractive. Fellow will conduct own research, attend a weekly interdisciplinary workshop, and participate in a final conference. To download an application form, please go HERE . The Center for the Study of Religion, through a grant from the Lilly Endowment for research on Christian thought and practice, has a small amount of funding available to support junior and senior independent research related to the study of churches and church-related topics in the United States.