The Winner:
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Souls in Transition: The Religious Lives of Emerging Adults
An exemplary work of scholarship combining empirical data with personal stories, Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults cuts through the media clutter on college-age adults to offer a vital portrait of their religious, moral, and spiritual assumptions and practices. The implications in this work for the way colleges and universities--religiously-affiliated or not--recruit, retain, instruct, and prepare students for lives that matter are challenging and profound. Souls in Transition should be required reading for anyone working in higher education.
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The Finalists:
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Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar
By Paul J. Griffiths
The Catholic University of America Press, 2009
ISBN-13: 9780813216867
http://cuapress.cua.edu/
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Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation
Edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller
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Does God Make a Difference?: Taking Religion Seriously in Our Schools and Universities
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The biennial Lilly Fellows Program Book Award honors an original and imaginative work from any academic discipline that best exemplifies the central ideas and principles animating the Lilly Fellows Program. These include faith and learning in the Christian intellectual tradition, the vocation of teaching and scholarship, and the history, theory or practice of the university as the site of religious inquiry and culture.
Works considered for this year's award addressed the historical or contemporary relation of Christian intellectual life and scholarship to the practice of teaching as a Christian vocation or to the past, present, and future of higher education.
A Prize of $3000 was awarded at the Lilly Fellows Program National Conference at Samford University, October 22, 2011.
To download a copy of the 2011 LFP Book Award announcement, click here. To see past winners, click here.
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