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...full-fledged Department of Religion may eventually be created, Richard R. Niebuhr '47, Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity, said yesterday...
...Committee on Higher Degrees in the Study of Religion, which Niebuhr chairs, will compile the list of current course offerings and propose new courses for the 1968-69 academic year. The Committee will also study various approaches to the teaching of religion to undergraduates...
...plan to discuss such topics as the historical, psychological and sociological aspects of religion and then suggest possible courses in each area," Niebuhr said...
Faculty members from the School of Arts and Sciences will probably teach most of the projected courses, Niebuhr said. Instructors from that School now teach the larger portion of undergraduate Religion courses. "This new effort is interdepartmental, not reserved for the Divinity School," he emphasized...
Headed by Methodist A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and supported by such churchmen as Reinhold Niebuhr and Bishop James A. Pike, the committee claims to have pledges of deposit withdrawals totaling $22 million. Defenders of the committee argue that there is ample precedent for such a boycott: most Protestant churches refuse to invest in companies that manufacture alcohol or tobacco products. Boston's Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. believes that the churches should no more support apartheid, even implicitly, than they should buy "real estate that was being used as a brothel...