Video: Dignity vs. Honor: Gender in Post-Holocaust Ultra-Orthodox Theology
WSRP Research Associate Yakir Englander , Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and Judaism, discusses gender in post-holocaust ultra-orthodox theology.
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Video: His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa on Serving Others
His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa discusses serving others with faculty and students of the HDS Ministry Program.
Video: His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa on Full Ordination for Tibetan Women, moderated by Professor Janet Gyatso
His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa discusses ordination of Tibetan women with faculty and students of the Buddhist Studies program at HDS. The conversation was moderated by Janet Gyatso, HDS Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for...
Political Islam and Muslim Democracy
Muslim countries cannot be considered secular and liberal in the way we in the U.S. understand these qualifications, says Jocelyne Cesari, Lecturer in Islamic Studies at HDS. Cesari, who is director of Harvard's Islam in the West Program, will talk about...
To Be Buddhist Monks at Harvard
Bhante Kusala says being a Buddhist monk at Harvard has its quirks. Leaning forward and adjusting his cinnamon-colored robe in the crowded Rock Café at HDS, the shaven-headed Kusala confided, "In this culture, people like to give a hug in friendship, but...
For Heredi Women, Living within Invisible Walls
While he was living in Jerusalem, Yakir Englander, research associate at the HDS Women's Studies in Religion Program, said there was an invisible wall between genders, and another wall that divided race and nation. It's those walls that serve as the basis...
His Holiness the 17th Karmapa to Visit HDS
Harvard Divinity School is honored to host "Caring for Life on Earth in the Twenty-first Century," a talk presented by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. The talk, which is sponsored by HDS, the Harvard College Freshman Dean's...
Video: Engaged Dharma in a World on Fire
Zen master Dogen said "Enlightenment is the intimacy of all things." Kittisaro and Thanissara, former Buddhist monastics and longtime meditation teachers, reflect on how to live from this reality in a world increasingly divided and threatened by climate...
Video: The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
Professor Gary Dorrien delivers the 2015 Lentz Lecture. An Episcopal priest, Professor Dorrien is the author of 16 books and approximately 275 articles that range from ethics, social theory, and theology, to philosophy, politics, and history. He is a...
Spring Break Done Right
Most students anticipate their spring break being a time off from study and full of relaxation. But for a group of HDS students, this spring break is instead an opportunity to encounter in person what they've been studying all semester. Fifteen students...
Where the Spiritual and Scholarly Meet
Matthew L. Potts has a really long commute to work. Since 2013, when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, Potts has been driving over 75 miles from Falmouth, Massachusetts—where he lives with his family and...
Stephanie Paulsell Named 2015–16 Luce Fellow
Stephanie Paulsell, Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, has been named one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2015–16 by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and the Henry Luce Foundation. Paulsell's...
