Description
Diana Butler Bass is an
author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American
religion and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke
University and is the award-winning author of ten books, including Grounded: Finding God in the World —A Spiritual Revolution (HarperOne, 2015), Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening (HarperOne, 2012) and Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Transforming the Faith (HarperOne, 2006). Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks is being released by HarperOne in April 2018.
Dr. Bass regularly speaks at conferences,
consults with religious organizations, leads educational events, and
teaches and preaches in a variety of venues in the United States and
internationally. Her bylines include The Washington Post, The New York Times Syndicate, and The Huffington Post, and she has commented widely on religion, politics, and culture in the media, including USA TODAY, Time, Newsweek, CBS, CNN, FOX, PBS, NPR, Sirius XM, and CBC.
Diana Butler Bass is the recipient of
numerous grants and awards, including the Wilbur Award, the Nautilus
Gold Medal, the Book of the Year from Religion News Service, and the
Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church
History. Holder of an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from The
General Theological Seminary in New York, she serves on the board of
Public Religion Research and is an advisor on the project for a National
Museum of American Religion in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Butler Bass has taught at Westmont
College, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Macalester
College, Rhodes College, and the Virginia Theological Seminary on
subjects ranging from church history and American religious history to
religion and politics, religion and race, and congregational studies.
From 2002 to 2006 she was the Project Director of a national Lilly
Endowment-funded study of mainline Protestant vitality—a project
featured in Newsweek, USA TODAY, and the Los Angeles Times. She can be
followed on Facebook and Twitter.
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