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Awards for Excellence in Scholarship and Public Leadership

The Westar Institute confers two awards in recognition of exceptional scholarship in the academic study of religion and one award to honor exceptional leaders in the promotion of religious literacy.

Order of David Friedrich Strauss

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Order of Susan M. (Elli) Elliott

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Order of Baruch Spinoza

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Advocate for Public Religious Literacy

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Rigorous scholarship on the origins of Christianity, made for the public.
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