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Six From Faculty to Attend Cincinnati Religious Meeting

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Six members of the faculty will attend a conference concerning the relation between religion and humanistic scholarship next week in Cincinnati. The conference, which will be given under the auspices of the Frank L. Weil Institute of Studies in Religion and Scholarship, will examine the barriers separating the discipline of theology from the humanities.

Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, will open the conference Jan. 17 with a public lecture on "Religion and Scholarship."

Benjamin Rowland, Jr. '28, professor of Fine Arts, will present a paper on "Religious Art: East and West." John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology; Krister Stendahl, John H. Morrison Professor of New Testament Studies; Wilbur K. Jordan, professor of History; and Genjun H. Sasaki, visiting Fulbright lecturer, will also attend the conference.

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