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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
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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
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2001 Orr Lectures
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