THE PROJECT ON LIVED THEOLOGY is a research community based in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Our goal is to understand the social consequences of religious beliefs. The heart of the Project’s mission is encouraging younger theologians and scholars of religion to embrace theological life as a form of public responsibility. Among an emerging generation of teachers, writers, and researchers, we are discovering a hunger for the opportunity to reconnect the theological enterprise with lived experience, and it is our privilege to provide a public space in which that task can be pursued.
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Remembering Vinegar Hill
On March 7, 2003, The Project on Lived Theology held the fifth session of The City and Congregation Workgroup, part of an ongoing effort to build a theological narrative of the city of Charlottesville. The theme for the day …
SILT 2013 convenes next week as participants work on the book project, “Lived Theology: Style, Method, and Pedagogy”
Spring Institute for Lived Theology 2013: After Ten Years
May 22-24
Charlottesville, Virginia
In celebration of a decade of work by hundreds of scholars and activists, SILT 2013 will assemble some of the Project’s alumni as well as a few …
SILT 2010 organizer, Sarah Azaransky, publishes Religion and Politics in America’s Borderlands with Lexington Books
Religion and Politics in America’s Borderlands, edited by the Project on Lived Theology’s own Sarah Azaransky has gone to press with Lexington Books. Out of the lectures and essays presented at SILT 2010 in San Diego, California, this work brings …
Carlene Bauer, acclaimed novelist, to give writing workshop at U.Va. in June
As part of the 2013 Virginia Seminar, Carlene Bauer will offer a writing workshop that is open to the public. Her most recent work, Frances and Bernard, is a narrative through letters exchanged between two writers on the rise who …
Virginia Seminar member Susan Holman speaks at Duke as part of a series on “Religion and Public Life”
Susan Holman, member of the first Virginia Seminar in Lived Theology and author of God Knows There’s Need: Christian Responses to poverty, delivered an invited lecture in early April at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, as part …