The Center

Mission

The McNamara Center promotes scholarship on religion that serves the common good at the intersection of the academy and the world.

The McNamara Center bridges the academy and the world by facilitating and amplifying research on religion that serves the common good. We believe that rigorous and responsible research on religion must engage with the lived experiences of individual persons, the needs of faith communities, and the pressing questions of public life. Guided by the Jesuit tradition of broadminded intellectual inquiry in service of the common good, through workshops, lectures, and support for collaborative projects, the McNamara Center promotes faculty research, nurtures graduate scholarship, and sustains conversations that transcend the boundaries of the academy.