This site is also a work in progress. Its database contains only a small fraction of the projects that the Lilly Endowment Inc. intends to place on the site. Additional clusters of projects will be added to the database. New projects and products will be introduced into the current clusters, and more essays, interviews, study guides and issues of the newsletter, Initiative in Religion , will be included as they become available. If you register at this site, you will be notified by e-mail when new information has been added.
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It is provided primarily to facilitate your use of the site as well as to allow the site administrator to monitor the population using its content. This web site is the successor to a web-based pilot project. That pilot grew out of the imagination of the Religion Division staff at the Lilly Endowment Inc. who were eager to employ electronic media as a vehicle for disseminating the rich findings of Lilly-funded projects. Craig Dykstra, Jeanne Knoerle and Kathleen Cahalan provided continuing oversight and leadership in the development of the project. As a way to begin the effort, the Lilly Endowment asked Auburn Theological Seminary to explore new ways of making the results of Lilly-funded projects in religion more widely available.