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 \u2014 with a limited reach.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cMormon moment\u201d and Muslim-American political dissent before and after the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n