Sophie Brody Award
1 appearances
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Edition 4 (2009) Winner
Peter Manseau
ピーター・マンソー
Pitā Mansō
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Religion scholar, Museum curator
- Active Years
- 2004-2022
- Affiliations
- National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Massachusetts | — | College | — | — | United States |
| Georgetown University | — | — | Master's and Doctorate | — | United States |
University of Massachusetts
College
Country:
United States
Georgetown University
Degree:
Master's and Doctorate
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | National Jewish Book Award | Songs for the Butcher's Daughter | Fiction | Jewish Book Council | Winner |
| 2009 | Sophie Brody Award | Songs for the Butcher's Daughter | — | — | Winner |
National Jewish Book Award
2008
Work:
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Category:
Fiction
Organization:
Jewish Book Council
Result:
Winner
Sophie Brody Award
2009
Work:
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
2008 NovelA novel featuring Yiddish significantly, exploring religion and language.
ReligionLanguageJewish culture
Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son
2005 MemoirMemoir about his mother, a former Catholic nun, and father, a former Catholic priest.
FamilyCatholicism
Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith
2009 Essay collectionCo-edited with Jeff Sharlet.
FaithMargins of faith
Objects of Devotion: Religion in Early America
2017 Illustrated collectionAccompanied the museum's first religion-oriented exhibit.
American religious history
Bibliography
- Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible
- Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son
- Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
- Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith
- Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead
- One Nation Under Gods: A New American History
- Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck
- Objects of Devotion: Religion in Early America
- The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
- The Jefferson Bible: A Biography
- The Maiden of All Our Desires: A Novel
- Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science, and Making Sense of Things
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Exploration of religion through languageAttraction to bizarre aspects of religion
- Recurring Motifs
- Bizarre and discomforting religionReligious family background
Legacy
Known as curator of American religious history, acclaimed for works on religion and language.
Quotes
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Though most of my writing is about religion in one way or another, that’s my real interest: language—the ways in which religious identities are shaped by the languages we use to talk about them.
Source: The New Yorker (2009)
Trivia
- Parents were former Catholic priest and nun.
- Co-founder of Killing the Buddha webzine.