Finalists for the International Award for Excellence

Congratulations to all of the Award finalists:

• Raoul Adam - An Epistemic Theory of Religious Fundamentalism
• Glenna Barlow - Sati or Suttee: Dutiful Deity, Patriarchal Practice (to be published in an upcoming issue)
• Michael J. Breen and Caillin Reynolds - The Rise of Secularism and the Decline of Religiosity in Ireland: The Pattern of Religious Change in Europe
•  Loretta Brewer - Ancestors, Elders, and the Role of Spirituality in Late Life
•  Jeremy Cummings – The Sacred and the Transformation of the Self: A Proposed Definition of Religious Conversion (to to be published in an upcoming issue)
• Rob James - Engagement, Disengagement and African Theology
•  Phillip T. Stephens - The Poetry That Drives and Divides Faith: How Metaphoric Thinking Shapes Belief and Creates Religious Conflict
• Alicia Cordoba Tait - Finding Balance: The Rule of St. Benedict as Model for Spiritual Practice through Prayer, Study and Work
• Donald L. Wallenfang - Figures and Forms of Ultimacy: Manifestation and Proclamation as Paradigms of the Sacred