THE NEXT MONTH, divinity faculty opened their in-boxes to find a disquieting message from the university’s president. “I write to make you aware that I have asked a group of distinguished scholars and academic leaders from outside the University to offer me their advice on how we can strengthen the study of religion at Harvard,” Faust wrote. The six-member panel she assembled included the president of Bryn Mawr College, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, a former dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School and highly esteemed religion professors at Berkeley, Penn and
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