#  Video: Religion and Terror: A Conversation in the Wake of the Boston Marathon Bombings 

 





May 09, 2013

 

 

Harvard Divinity School hosted a discussion on May 7 featuring some of Harvard's top scholars on religious conflict and interfaith peace-building in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Christopher Lydon, award-winning journalist and host of Radio Open Source, moderated the conversation. Participants included: HDS Dean David N. Hempton on religious conflict; Jocelyne Cesari, Lecturer on Islamic Studies, on how things have changed—and how they haven't—for American Muslims since 9/11; WSRP Research Associate Zilka Spahic Siljak on interfaith peace-building; Harvey Cox, Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, on violence and the Book of Lamentations; Sally Finestone, counselor to Jewish students at HDS and rabbi, Congregation Or Atid, on faith's lessons for dealing with tragedy.

Read further coverage in the [*Harvard Gazette*](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/aspects-of-belief-some-destructive/).



 



 

 

 



 

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