The Learned Society and Scholarly Research

In The Archive, we republish an article that, in hindsight, may have been ahead of its time with its prescience. Our pull for this issue is a 1981 piece from Douglas Strum on learned societies in the United States which are geared around different religious aspects. Strum lays out what the purpose, goals, and research of these different, often disparate, societies are and asks the question, “what should they be?” This was originally published in our predecessor publication, the CSR Bulletin in April 1981 (Volume 12, Number 2).