Exploring Yale’s Nexus of Faith, Humanity, and Anthropology
Yale, God, Man, and Anthropology In 1949, as an undergraduate at Yale, William F. Buckley Jr. challenged a professor’s reductionist treatment of Christian rituals published in the student newspaper. Buckley took issue with the professor’s claim that practices encountered in distant, so‐called “primitive” societies were comparable in rationality to the Catholic Eucharist—a ritual in which … Read more