Steve Tipton: Public Pulpits

Religious scholar Steven M. Tipton teaches sociology, religion and ethics at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, where he is a professor of sociology of religion. A graduate of Harvard University, he is the author of “Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argument of Public Life,” a study of national religious advocacy by the mainline churches, which will be released by the University of Chicago Press in early 2008.
Tipton’s speech on “Public Pulpits: Religion in the Moral Argument of Public Life,” addresses the tension between government and the growing number of religious institutions pursuing politicized moral advocacy.