Criteria For Judging Nominations
The Award competition, which is open to persons of all religious traditions and world views, will consider a wide variety of concerns and issues. Such issues may include but are not limited to:

• The experience of divine or ultimate reality,

• Meaning and purpose of human existence,

• Authority and freedom in religious understanding,

• Pluralism and religious truth,

• Evil, suffering, and death,

• Compassion, joy and hope,

• Religion and science,

• Divine involvement in human history,

• Practices of faith and spirituality.

• which lead to a recognition and understanding of religious experience;

• which foster greater understanding and cooperation among adherents of diverse religious traditions and views;

• which stimulate new insights into the relationship between religious awareness and other forms of human knowledge;

• which reflect significant breakthroughs in our understanding of divine-human relationships, particularly in the context of the postmodern world.

Nomination Process
Each person or group nominating an idea for consideration must submit one (1) copy of each of the following in typed or printed form:

• A completed nomination form.

• The work as published or printed (in the case of a speech, the written text or transcript) including all standard bibliographic and copyright citations. Publishers submitting nominations are requested to supply the required total of six (6) copies of the work.

• In the case of submissions in a language other than English, a substantial abstract in English should also be included.

• A supporting statement of between 500-750 words in English setting out the central idea of the work and specifically relating the idea to the criteria for the award.

Deadline
Nominations must be received by December 1. All submissions become the property of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award Committee. In the event that no idea is considered adequately meritorious in a given year, no award will be made.

The Review Process
A faculty review committee appointed by the presidents of the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary will consider all nominations and advance a select number for further consideration. Three judges of international reputation chosen by the university and the seminary will select three finalists. Recommendation of a winner from among the finalists will be made by the Louisville Grawemeyer Committee to the Boards of the seminary and the university for final action.

Awardee Requirements
The winner of the Award will be announced after December 1st. The winner will be expected to come to Louisville during the following spring to make a formal presentation based on the winning idea and to receive the Award. The trip to Louisville is mandatory and failure to fulfill this requirement will result in forfeiture of the Award and the associated cash prize.

Nominee agrees and accepts that, consistent with the intent of H. Charles Grawemeyer, the Award will not be given posthumously.  The Nominee must be living in order to receive the Award and must participate in the Award festivities referenced above in order to receive the Award and the associated cash prize.  If the nominated Work was created by multiple persons, one or more of whom is deceased, only the living nominees are eligible to receive the Award and the associated cash prize. The first installment of the cash prize will be paid at the Award festivities.

Nominee agrees and accepts that the cash prize associated with the Award will be paid in five annual installments of forty-thousand dollars ($40,000). The installment payments will cease upon death of the recipient. Winning the Award does not create any property rights in the cash prize for the recipient’s heirs or estate. In the event that the Award is given to multiple recipients (such as co-authors), there is only one cash prize associated with the Award and said cash prize will be divided evenly amongst the recipients. If a co-recipient dies before the final installment is paid, payments to that co-recipient will cease and the full amount of the remaining installments will be divided evenly between the still-living co-recipients.

Nominee shall participate, as appropriate, and cooperate in the production of any documentary film or other public relations or publicity matters related to the Competition, including the execution of any necessary releases and/or authorizations.

Nominee hereby grants permanent permission for the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Board of Trustees to use the title and excerpts from the Work and any media depicting their receipt and acceptance of the Award for library and archival purposes, and for the purpose of promoting the Grawemeyer Awards and their affiliation with the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The term “media” is understood to include, but not be limited to, audio and visual images and/or recordings of any format which depict the Recipient’s visit to the campuses of the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Awards presentation itself and any comments made by the Recipient as part of the campus visits and the Awards festivities.

All physical materials submitted become the property of the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

For More Information
Retrieve the Nomination Form

Contact
Nominations and requests for Nomination Forms or further information should be sent to:

Susan R. Garrett
The Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
1044 Alta Vista Road
Louisville, Kentucky 40205-1798
U.S.A.
Phone: 1-800-264-1839, Ext. 427
Fax: 502-894-2286
E-mail: grawemeyer@lpts.edu