Previous Winners
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
2011 - Luke Timothy Johnson
Luke Timothy Johnson, a biblical scholar and senior fellow at Emory University, won the $100,000 prize for the ideas set forth in his 2009 book, “Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity.”
2010 - Eboo Patel
Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core, won the prize for his 2007 autobiography, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation.
2009 - Donald Shriver Jr.
The United States must own up to past sins such as slavery and taking land away from Native Americans before it can be a truly great nation, says the winner of the 2009 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
2002 - Miroslav Volf
"Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation"
1994 - Stephen L. Carter
"The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion"
