initiatives at the Divinity School, ISM
Yale received two grants totaling more than $1.1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. in support of projects at the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) and the Divinity School.
The grants will help fund the study of liturgical practices at the ISM and the use of information technology in the classroom at the Divinity School.
President Richard C. Levin expressed his deep gratitude to Lilly Endowment for its continuing support of Yale and stated his belief that the insights gleaned from the ISM project will be of important benefit in other areas of theological education.
The ISM study, "Liturgical Practice and the Theological Disciplines: Experiments with a New Model for Scholarship, Teaching and Learning," will examine religious congregations from the basic theological disciplines of biblical studies, liturgics, theology, history, preaching, and religion and the arts -- especially the art of music. This study is being funded by a grant of $835,000 from the Lilly Endowment.
"The project aims to address the over-reliance in the theological disciplines upon textual evidence by focusing on the practices of faith in diverse communities. It will examine elements such as ceremony, sounds, sights -- even smells -- and the people who have lived and live the practice, both in the past and in the present," says Margot Fassler, the Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History and director of ISM.
The project will produce both scholarly books and textbooks illustrated by videos of ritual observance and sacred music in context.
The grant also supported "Up With a Shout! The Psalms in Jewish and Christian Religious, Artistic and Intellectual Traditions," which took place Jan. 2023 on campus and in New Haven. (See the Jan. 12 Yale Bulletin & Calendar.)
The Divinity School received $300,000 from Lilly Endowment to assist its effort to equip its library, classrooms and seminar rooms with computer and audio/visual equipment.
The Divinity School and its partners in theological education at Yale -- the Berkeley Divinity School and ISM -- have begun a $42 million project to restore and update the facilities at 409 Prospect St. Equipment provided through the Lilly Endowment grant will enable professors and students to gain access to the increasing wealth of research and instructional materials available in electronic form. It will also enable professors to explore new ways of interacting with their students using state-of-the-art technology.
The grant will support training for faculty, staff and students in the use of the new technologies. Faculty teams are already at work preparing new educational materials, including databases of digitized images for courses in Bible and church history, and an archive of films of liturgical performances for use in teaching liturgy and worship.
Harold W. Attridge, the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament, who coordinated the grant application, notes: "Students entering the Divinity School currently have an increasingly high degree of sophistication in the use of modern tools for research and instruction. This grant will help us meet their expectations, enable us to take advantage of new resources available in digitized form and stimulate innovative teaching techniques in many of our disciplines."
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