Danforth Center unveils online magazine ‘Religion & Politics’

Since it opened its doors in the fall of 2010, the Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University has been quietly focused on the public nature of its mission — with a limited reach.

Before this week, the face of the center, which was launched with a $30 million gift from the Danforth Foundation, was shown to the public largely through its campus events, all for a St. Louis audience.

Most of those have been lectures by scholars on topics as diverse as the rhetoric Christians use to talk about sexuality, a historical look at the current “Mormon moment” and Muslim-American political dissent before and after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Now the center is unveiling its most visible and far-reaching endeavor, with the release of its new online journal, “Religion & Politics.” Officials at the center are calling “Religion & Politics” a journal, in the tradition of academic publications, but it’s ambitions are more akin to magazines with a mix of narrative journalism, feature news reporting and informed commentary — Harper’s, the New Yorker or the Atlantic.
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