Awards

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

1986	Faculty Research and Development Summer Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago.
1988-89	University Research Council Sabbatical Grant for Winter Quarter, DePaul University, Chicago.
1989	American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Religious Studies. Pre- sented at AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (18 November 1990).
1991	Ninth Annual Rev. William T. Cortelyou - Martin J. Lowery Award for Excellence from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, DePaul University.
1992	Faculty Research and Development Summer Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago.
1992-93	University Research Council, DePaul Univesity, Chicago, Sabbatical Grant for Spring Quarter, 1993.
1993	University Research Council, DePaul University, Chicago, Grant for Summer research in Rome, Italy, 1993.
1995	Via Sapientiae Award, DePaul University’s highest honor.
2003	Doctor of Humanities. Honorary doctorate from Stetson University, DeLand, FL, Saturday, May 10, 2003.
2007	The Albert Schweitzer Memorial Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in the Critical Study of Religion, from the Center for Inquiry (CFI) & the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER), University of California at Davis, Thursday, 25 January, 2007.