R. Scott Appleby
Professor of History
John M. Regan Jr. Director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Office: 106 Hesburgh Center
Phone: 574-631-5665
Email: Appleby.3@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
Peace studies, American religious history, religious violence
Appleby is a historian whose scholarship and teaching concerns religious violence and religious peacebuilding. Two years before the 9/11 attacks, in his book, “Violence and the Sacred," he warned that “today a tiny minority of violent religious actors might command the attention of an entire nation and its security apparatus.” From 1988 to 1993 he co-directed, with Martin Marty, an exhaustive international study of religious fundamentalism. He also studies and speaks on the political and internal affairs of the Catholic Church and was invited to address the American Catholic bishops during the worst days of its sexual abuse crisis.
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Nobel committee chose “brilliantly” in selection of Obama
President Obama’s speech surprisingly “tough-minded”
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Kroc director Scott Appleby praises religious liberty doctrines in Catholicism and Islam
