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Video: When the Book Is a Coyote

April 07, 2015

Laurel C. Schneider discusses challenges and possibilities for comparative theology from the study of Native American traditions. Laurel C. Schneider is a professor of religious studies and women's and gender studies at Vanderbilt University. This lecture...

'I Could Belong Here'

April 07, 2015

In the spring of 2013, I arrived in Cambridge to attend the Open House for Admitted Students at Harvard Divinity School. I was nervous and still unsure about whether I would enroll at HDS later in the fall. I was fortunate to have other offers and to be...

Video: Stendahl Symposium: Conversations Across Religious Boundaries

April 06, 2015

In this year's Stendahl Symposium, four Harvard Divinity School students present their papers centered around the broad topic of "conversations across religious boundaries." The Stendahl Symposium has become an annual HDS tradition in memory of former...

Faith in Diplomacy

April 06, 2015

While at HDS, Casey found the resources to think deeply about lived religion and civil society Shaun Casey, MDiv '83, ThD '98, sat with a local imam in a café in Sub-Saharan Africa. A careless word or gesture could cause offense and derail the important...

HDS Course Spotlight: Christian Ethics and Modern Society

April 03, 2015

As I entered my second semester as a master of divinity degree candidate at HDS, I looked forward to branching out and taking courses that were cross-listed with other Harvard schools and composed of students from different parts of Harvard. My favorite...

Why Buddhism and the Modern World Need Each Other

April 01, 2015

Dr. David Loy explores how we need both social and personal transformation, not just because these ideals complement each other, but because each project needs the other if it is to be successful. Dr. David Loy is a writer, scholar, and Zen teacher in the...

Orientalism and Religion Colloquium

April 01, 2015

The Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS regularly hosts public lectures, book events, and occasional conversations, such as those included in the "Religion in the News" lunch series. But also of great importance to the Center's mission are the...

The Metaphysics of Ecology: What Makes Our Environment Worthy of Care

March 31, 2015

Professor Caner Dagli, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, delivers a lecture as part of the Junior Fellowship Series "Religion and Nature" at the Center for the Study of World Religions.

Video: William James and the Protestant Conversion Crisis

March 30, 2015

Dr. Bill J. Leonard of Wake Forest University presented the annual William James Lecture. Leonard's research focuses on church history with particular attention to American religion, Baptist studies, and Appalachian religion. His newest book, A Sense of...

Caring for Life on Earth

March 27, 2015

Besides epidemics, wars, violence, and starvation, there is another source of disaster that is often overlooked: "a lack of love." So said His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, to a capacity crowd at Harvard's Memorial Church on...

Video: His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa on Caring for Life on Earth

March 26, 2015

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, spoke to a capacity crowd at Harvard's Memorial Church on Thursday, March 26. The Karmapa's talk, "Caring for Life on Earth in the Twenty-first Century," was sponsored by HDS, the Harvard...

Video: The Awakening of Muslim Democracy

March 26, 2015

Professor Jocelyne Cesari discusses her new book, The Awakening of Muslim Democracy, with two respondents. Read Q&A with Jocelyne Cesari