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Annual Religion Department Orr Lecture

In 1972 James H. Orr, a Boston financier and supporter of the Religion Department at Dartmouth, provided the funding for a lecture series now known as the "James and David Orr Memorial Lectures on Culture and Religion." The initial "Orr Lecture" was given that year by Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago who lectured on "Sacred City, Sacred Time," and our aim in this series has continued to be to bring to Dartmouth each year scholars and writers whose achievements are at the highest level, while not insisting that our speaker's main field of interest in fact be religion. Thus, some "Orr Lecturers" have been historians, anthropologists, novelists, biologists, philosophers, and so on: past "Orr Lecturers" include Lionel Trilling, Mary Douglas, Edward Said, Carolyn Bynum, Edward Shils, Rodney Needham, Donald Davidson, Amartya Sen, Gita Mehta, Judith Butler, Karen Amstrong, and Steven Pinker.

2005 Orr Lecture

Elaine Pagels, Princeton University

  • April 28, 2005
  • 4:15pm Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
  • Title: The Secret Gospel of Thomas: Conflicting Images of Jesus in Early Christianity

 

2001 Orr Lectures

 

Last Updated: 9/15/06