Besl Family Chair for Ethics/Religion and Society
Peter A. Huff
Peter A. Huff is currently on leave from Centenary College of Louisiana, where he has held the T. L. James chair in religious studies since 2001. He previously taught at the University of
Huff studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music,
Dr. Huff has written extensively on the tension between classical forms of religious belief and practice and patterns of life and thought generated by the experience of modernity. He is a leading authority on fundamentalism and the antimodernist impulse in world religions. His books include Allen Tate and the Catholic Revival (Paulist Press), What Are They Saying About Fundamentalisms? (Paulist Press), and two co-edited volumes: Knowledge and Belief in America (Cambridge University Press) and Tradition and Pluralism (University Press of America). His articles and reviews have appeared in journals and magazines such as Church History, Cross Currents, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Horizons, International Journal on World Peace, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Liguorian, New Oxford Review, Quaker History, Theological Studies, and The Unitarian Universalist Christian.
Active in ecumenical and interfaith affairs, Dr. Huff is newsletter editor for the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. His current research agenda includes book projects on papal contributions to interreligious dialogue, evolving interpretations of Vatican II, and Mormon-Catholic dialogue.