A $30 million endowment gift from the Danforth Foundation will establish and support the John C. Danforth Center of Religion and Politics at Washington University in Missouri, the St. Louis Today website reports.
The Center -- which will open in January 2010 -- will convene conferences and lectures focusing on a host of issues related to religion and politics at all levels of government.
Danforth, a three-term senator from Missouri and an ordained Episcopal priest, has long been concerned with the role of religion in politics. In 2006, he authored a book on the topic titled "Faith and Politics: How the Moral Values Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together."
Danforth, who will chair the Center's National Advisory Board, said he expects the Center to restrict studies to religion and politics in the United States, rather than exploring global religion.
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