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Charles Stang, HDS professor and CSWR director

Stang Discusses the CSWR’s ‘Peculiar Alchemy’

January 16, 2018

On July 1, Professor of Early Christian Thought Charles Stang became the seventh director of Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, succeeding Parkman Professor of Divinity Francis X. Clooney, S.J. A scholar of asceticism, monasticism, and mysticism in Eastern Christianity, Stang recently discussed his vision for the CSWR, which in 2018 will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding.
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Ten Questions with Diana Eck

Ten Questions with Diana Eck

December 2, 2011

The Harvard Crimson spends "Fifteen Minutes" with legendary HDS and Harvard Professor Diana Eck. 

Bringing Faiths Together

Bringing Faiths Together

April 20, 2011

In the middle of the Braun Room, closely surrounded by onlookers, Los­ang Samten stood over the colorful sand mandala, which he'd spent the bet­ter part of two days creating, and smiled while others swept it away. The creation, and subsequent ceremonial dismantling, of the mandala was part of the events that took place at Harvard Divinity School April 15–16 to honor the Center for Study of World Religion's golden anniversary.... Read more about Bringing Faiths Together