Faith and Knowledge

"Faith and Knowledge: Latter-day Saints in Religious Studies"
A Conference for LDS Graduate Students in Religion Yale Divinity School, Yale University February 16-17, 2007

The audience and participants for this conference will be primarily LDS graduate students studying in divinity schools, Religious Studies programs or who are pursuing other disciplines relevant to Mormon thought, doctrine and scholarship.

This conference will be a forum for discussion of issues relating to Mormon doctrine, culture and scholarship that arise while pursuing graduate studies in religion. It will be an open forum where students of divergent points of view will be free to express their concerns, questions, and thoughts and report their progress in reaching productive outcomes. We anticipate raising questions of how religious studies may enrich, while challenging, our faith as Latter-day Saints, and what can we bring to the issues under debate in religious scholarship.

The conference will include four panel discussions each consisting of three panelists and a moderator and will focus on specific related topics. Each panelist will present for 15 to 20 minutes and then ample time will be set aside for questions and discussion of the presentations. Richard L. Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University, will provide the opening address for the conference. Terryl Givens of the University of Richmond will provide the closing address.