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Thayer S. Warshaw – A Tribute

This is a tribute to a man who may be the single most influential person in the last thirty years in developing pedagogy to teach about religions in public education. To celebrate the many contributions that Thayer made, and to reflect his diverse interests and complex personality, we thought it helpful to have reflections from several colleagues. Jim Uphoff chose to describe Thayer’s involvement in curriculum planning in the years following the landmark Abington v. Schempp (1963) case. Like Jim, Nick Piediscalzi is a retired Wright State University faculty member who shared workshops and many conversations with Thayer over the years. In addition to analyzing Thayer’s contribution to the field, Nick notes two other recently deceased pioneer scholars in the public education religion studies movement, Robert Michaelsen and Ninian Smart.