"More than four decades
ago, in The Christian in a Religiously Plural World, Wilfred
Cantwell Smith wrote, 'We explain the fact that the Milky Way is
there by the doctrine of creation, but how do we explain the
fact that the Bhagavad Gita is there?' This theological question
has a personal face in an increasingly multi-religious America:
How do we explain the fact of Hindu neighbors who honor the Bhagavad Gita as scripture and others who follow their own
religious traditions? I count it a privilege to introduce
seminarians to the world’s religions and the range of Christian
perspectives on living in religiously plural societies."
Education:
Ph.D. in comparative religion, Northwestern University, 1992
M.Div., Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 1984
B.A., Aurora College, 1979
Recently Published Works:
Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for
America’s Newest Immigrants, co-author, Rutgers University
Press, forthcoming
“Immigrant American Religions and the
Family: New Diversity and Conservatism,” in
American Religions and the
Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and
Democracy (ed. Don S. Browning and David A. Clairmont;
New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 20-34.
“American Lessons about Religious and
Racial Liberties, with Special Reference to Asian-American
Buddhists,” in Religious
Pluralism in Democratic Societies: Challenges and Prospects for
Southeast Asia, Europe, and the
United States in the New Millennium
(ed. K. S. Nathan; Singapore:
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Association for
American Studies, 2007), 91-106
“Fundamentalisms and American Pluralism,”
Journal of Ecumenical
Studies 42,1 (Winter, 2007): 9-14
"Religions do more than debate the number of
dancing angels,"
Columbus Dispatch, March 31, 2007.
“Two Buddhisms Further Considered,” in
Buddhist Studies from
India to America: Essays in Honor of Charles S. Prebish,
ed. Damien Keown (New
York: Routledge, 2006), 207-233
"Smugness and scorn taint tense relationship of science and
religion," Columbus Dispatch, November 24, 2006.
“Immigrant Congregational Names in
Chicago: Religious and Civic
Considerations” (co-author with Fred Kniss),
Names: A Journal of
Onomastics 53, 4 (December 2005): 275-292
Contributed Op Ed piece to Columbus
Dispatch, September 2, 2005
Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America, co-author, Oxford
University Press, 2001
Dr. Numrich is appointed to a shared
faculty position as part of the Theological Consortium of
Greater Columbus. Go to...
Dr. Numrich's home page on the consortium website.
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