Martin Emil Marty (b. February 5, 1928, West Point, Nebraska) is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on 19th century and 20th century American religion. He served as a Lutheran pastor from 1952 to 1962 in the suburbs of Chicago. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School, held an endowed chair, and now holds emeritus status. He has served Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota since 1988 as Regent, Board Chair, Interim President in late 2000, and now as Senior Regent. He has been a columnist for The Christian Century magazine since 1956. His published works include Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1970), for which he won the National Book Award, the encyclopedic five-volume Fundamentalism Project, co-edited with historian R. Scott Appleby, and the Penguin Lives Series biography, Martin Luther (2004). Marty has

Books

• Modern American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Volume 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919 (1986) ISBN 0-226-50893-5
  • Volume 2: The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941 (1990) ISBN 0-226-50895-1
  • Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960 (1996) ISBN 0-226-50899-4
• The Fundamentalism Project, Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Editors
  • Volume 1:Fundamentalisms Observed, Marty/Appleby, (1991)
  • Volume 2:Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education, Marty/Appleby/Hardacre/Mendelsohn, (1993)
  • Volume 3:Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance, Marty/Appleby/Garvey/Kuran, (1993)
  • Volume 4:Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements, Marty/Appleby/Ammerman/Frykenberg/Heilman/Piscatori, (1994)
  • Volume 5:Fundamentalisms Comprehended, Marty/Appleby, (1995)
• Martin Luther (The Penguin Lives Series). New York: Viking (2004).

Additional Biographical Source: Martin E. Marty. "Half a Life in Religious Studies: Confessions of an 'Historical Historian'." Pp. 151-174 in The Craft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.