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Red Sea
In the lead-up to the midterm elections, some pundits predicted success for the Democrats based on the decline of white mainline evangelicals, a critical segment of Republican voters for more than three decades. When the dust cleared on Tuesday night...
Empire State Building

Video: Sound, Gender, Religion
WSRP Research Associate Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Visiting Professor of Women's Studies and Religion, explores how "sacred" sounds impact gender and religion. Read our interview with Rosalind Hackett
WSRP Research Associate Rosalind Hackett on Sound, Gender, Religion

Sound, Gender, and Religion
Sound is an integral aspect of many faith traditions. But what happens when women are kept from those sounds? What are the sonic dimensions of gender and religion? While working as a WSRP Research Associate this year, Rosalind I. J. Hackett is aiming to...
Rosalind Hackett

Costumes, Candy, and Christianity
Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday in the United States after Christmas, with Americans spending an estimated $6 billion annually. But while most people are familiar with the origins of the Christmas story, the background of...
Pumpkins

Faith and Family
In the spring of 2013, Cary Dabney found an envelope from Harvard Divinity School in his mailbox. The first member of his family to attend college, Dabney prepared himself for disappointment. He turned to his son—one of his six children—and joked that he...
Cardinal Seán O’Malley with Cary Dabney

Credit to His Faith
For Christopher Hampson, issues around debt forgiveness involve both moral and legal dimensions, and pursuing a joint degree at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and Harvard Law School (HLS) enables him to think through the many dimensions of creditor-debtor...
Christopher Hampson

Finding the Light
Standing on the roof of the Center for the Study of World Religions (built in 1960), you can see Jewett House (1913), Andover Hall (1911), and now, solar panels (2014). The juxtaposition highlights the Center's and Harvard Divinity School's commitment to...
cswr solar panels

Video: Light on Yoga – in America: On the Legacy of BKS Iyengar
A panel was held on October 20 in honor of the passing of BKS Iyengar, considered to have been one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world. Panelists included scholars and friends of Iyengar: Stephanie Corigliano, PhD candidate, comparative theology...
BKS Iyengar

Punching Pastors

Can you love your neighbor as you punch him in the face? That's one of the questions posed by the documentary Fight Church, which will be screened at Harvard during an event on Monday, October 20, hosted by the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at...
Paul Burress