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Paintings of the victims of the 2019 El Paso shooting

'Month of Unity' Aims to Help El Pasoans Heal from 2019 Walmart Mass Shooting

July 6, 2021
“The healing garden is about curing, not just remembering. It’s about restoration, it’s about hope of transformation, coming out of this,” said HDS Professor Davíd Carrasco. "It's also saying to the people who have tried to put a boot in the face of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in recent years — that we will not imitate your cruelty with ours."
David Carrasco

Understanding Aztec Discoveries in Mexico City

July 7, 2017

Professor Davíd Carrasco explains the spiritual meaning of items recently found in Mexico City, once home to the Aztec empire's holiest shrines, and believed buried there 500 yearrs ago.

Mayra Rivera Rivera

The Word Made Flesh

January 25, 2017

Professor of Religion and Latina/o Studies Mayra Rivera cares about bodies: bodies sent to war, where they are harmed; bodies relegated to slums that are unhealthy or workplaces that are unsafe; bodies that are the place where flesh and blood meet spirit.... Read more about The Word Made Flesh

New Music From Ancient Instruments

New Music From Ancient Instruments

February 22, 2016

Professor Davíd Carrasco discusses ocarinas, Mesoamerican flute-like instruments dating back as far as 4,500 years, which are now on display at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Mayra Rivera Rivera

Latina/o Religious Studies Scholar to Join HDS Faculty

April 24, 2009

Constructive theologian and former chemical engineer Mayra Rivera has been named Assistant Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She will join the HDS faculty July 1, 2010.

Since 2006, Rivera has served as Assistant Professor of Theology at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. She also advises doctoral students of the Graduate Theological Union—a consortium of graduate theological seminaries and centers located in the San Francisco Bay area.

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