John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

**About the Center** Washington University in St. Louis established the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics in 2010 as a center of scholarly excellence and public engagement with issues of critical importance in American life. **Our mission:** The Center serves as an open venue for fostering rigorous scholarship and informing broad academic and public communities about the intersections of religion and U.S. politics. **Our commitments:** - To support and enhance outstanding scholarly research on the historical and contemporary intertwining of religion and politics. - To disseminate excellent scholarship to students and the broad public by means of courses, lectures, conferences, and publications. - To foster debate and discussion among people who hold widely different views about religion and politics.