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This week the uncommonly productive subject of that jest can claim authorship of his 39th book in 27 years, the first* of four projected volumes in a work titled Modern American Religion. Judging from the first installment, the series will become a standard account of the nation's variegated religious culture during the current century. The four volumes, the fruition of decades of research, may rank as the much honored Marty's most significant contribution to U.S. studies...
Wide-ranging in his interests, lively in his prose and incisive of opinion, Marty, 58, a Lutheran clergyman, is generally acknowledged to be the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S. Leander Keck, dean of the Divinity School at Yale, observes that Marty is not only a noteworthy religion scholar but a "front-rank popularizer . . . In this country there isn't anyone comparable." Other academic commentators, says Keck, lack Marty's breadth of information, polish and "enormous energy...
That awesome vigor -- the tireless Marty even writes his books at a Morrow word processor while standing up -- is clearly evidenced in his daily schedule. The best-known and most solicited religion scholar working the lecture circuit, he daily receives half a dozen invitations to talk, and schedules one out-of-town appearance a week. He preaches at least once a month in various houses of worship, mainly in the area around suburban Riverside, Ill., where he lives with his second wife Harriet, a voice coach. Ever quotable, he is constantly sought by reporters looking for quick bursts of wisdom...
...Secular humanism addresses a similar range of questions and plays a similar role as religion does," Strike said. "If moral issues are going to be discussed in school, you have to teach religious and secular views...
...fundamental principles of the Bill of Rights in this country is that religion is kept private," she said...