Grawemeyer Award for Religion

The Louisville Grawemeyer Award honors highly significant contributions to religious and spiritual understanding. The purpose of the Award is to honor and publicize annually creative and constructive insights into the relationship between human beings and the divine, and ways in which this relationship may inspire or empower human beings to attain wholeness, integrity or meaning, either individually or in community.

The award is accompanied by a prize of $100,000, which is presented in full during the awards ceremony.

Eligibility: Any work (book, address, essay, etc.) presented or published in 2017 or subsequently will be eligible for consideration. Nominations are invited from religious organizations, appropriate academic associations, religious leaders and scholars, presidents of universities or schools of religion, publishers and editors of scholarly journals. There will be no discrimination based on religious affiliation or belief or lack thereof. The Award Committee encourages submissions from a wide variety of intellectual and/or religious perspectives.