id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-005503 Historian in demand | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 1836 77 51 A professor of history at the University of Notre Dame , Appleby is the coeditor, with Professor Martin Marty of the University of Chicago, of The Fundamentalism Project, a massive five-volume study of global fundamentalism, and, more recently, the author of a study of religious violence titled The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation. Whether discussing fundamentalism, religious violence or the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic church, Appleby maintains a low-key approach to explosive issues, part of which accounts for his influence. cache/news-005503.html txt/news-005503.txt