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Washington University in St. Louis will open a new academic center in January that will focus on the intersection of religion and politics and will be named for a former Missouri senator, John C. Danforth.
The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics will eventually have five full-time faculty members, offer an undergraduate minor and sponsor conferences and lectures, Mr. Danforth, a former three-term Republican senator, said in an interview.
An ordained Episcopal priest and author of a book titled "Faith and Politics," Mr. Danforth said the center would strive to be ideologically neutral and spark open-minded discussion on religion and politics. "I think all of us benefit from thinking about these issues more deeply, in a more scholarly way that is respectful to all points of view," he said.
