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FOR A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO RELIGIOUS LIBERALISM 1964-2003 |
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FOR A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO RELIGIOUS LIBERALISM 1964-2003 |
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The Frederic G. Melcher Book Award is administered by the Unitarian
Universalist Association and is given annually to a work published in the
United States during the past calendar year judged to be the most significant
contribution to religious liberalism. The first award was made in 1964.
| 2003 | Richard Rodriguez | Brown: The Last Discovery of America |
| 2002 | James Carroll | Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews |
| 2001 | No award | |
| 2000 | No award | |
| 1999 | David Halberstram | The Children |
| 1998 | Wei Jingsheng | The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings |
| 1997 | Andrew Young, Jr. | An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America |
| 1996 | Robert D. Richardson, Jr. | Emerson, The Mind on Fire |
| 1995 | Eva Fogelman | Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust |
| 1994 | Diana Eck | Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras |
| 1993 | Roger Rosenblatt | Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind |
| 1992 | Sissela Bok | Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir |
| 1991 | Tim O'Brien | The Things They Carried |
| 1990 | No award | |
| 1989 | Taylor Branch | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years |
| 1988 | Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| 1987 | Robert D. Richardson, Jr. | Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind |
| 1986 | Edward Harrison | Masks of the Universe |
| 1985 | Sherry Turkle | The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit |
| 1984 | J. Ronald Engel | Sacred Sands |
| 1983 | Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth |
| 1982 | Anthony P. Dunbar | Against the Grain |
| 1981 | John Boswell | Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality |
| 1980 | Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel | Utopian Thought in the Western World |
| 1979 | Sissela Bok | Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life |
| 1978 | Michael Walzer | Just and Unjust Wars |
| 1977 | James Luther Adams | On Being Human Religiously |
| 1976 | Joseph Campbell | The Mythic Image |
| 1975 | Eugene Genovese | Roll, Jordan, Roll |
| 1974 | Robert Jewett | The Captain America Complex |
| 1973 | Dorothy Day | On Pilgrimage |
| 1972 | William G. McLoughlin | New England Dissent, 1630-1833 |
| 1971 | Daniel Berrigan | Trial Poems, No Bars to Manhood, and The Trial |
| 1970 | Erik Erikson | Gandhi's Truth |
| 1969 | Donald B. Cutler, ed. | The Religious Situation |
| 1968 | Alan Westin | Privacy and Freedom |
| 1967 | Peter Gay | The Enlightenment |
| 1966 | No award | |
| 1965 | Rolf Hochhuth | The Deputy |
| 1964 | Herbert J. Muller | Religion and Freedom in the Modern World |
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