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Catherine Brekus, Distinguished American Religious Historian, to Join HDS
Renowned scholar of North American religious history Catherine Brekus has been named the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2014. Brekus is currently Professor in Religions in...
Video: From Medieval Sankore to Modern Say: Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Ousmane Oumar Kane delivered the inaugural Prince Alwaleed bin Talal lecture on March 6, 2014, and was titled "From Medieval Sankore to Modern Say: Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa in Historical and Comparative Perspective." Kane is...
HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council Announces 2014 Gomes Honorees
The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council is pleased to announce the 2014 recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors, inaugurated last year and given annually to a small group of graduates whose lives and work exemplify the mission and values of...
The Muslims Rarely Heard
Ahead of the inaugural Alwaleed Lecture, Ousmane Kane discusses his work and research and the transformation of Islamic identities.
Hand in Hand through the 'Land of the Sick'
In September 2009, a suspicious mass on a mammogram catapulted author, activist, and Ms. magazine founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin into "the land of the sick."
Video: Finding Altruism in China: The Confucian Corpus and the Quest for Universal Benevolence
On February 25, 2014, the CSWR sponsored this discussion on altruism in China.
Talking with God, from Ghana to California
by Jahnabi Barooah Americans in new, charismatic evangelical churches need to work harder than Ghanaians in theologically similar settings to make God real. This is the provocative thesis that Tanya Marie Luhrmann put forward at Harvard Divinity School's...
Women Leaders Gather at HDS for National Leadership Conference
"A shot of adrenaline." That's how Amy Post, a practicing interfaith minister in New York, described this year's Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) National Leadership Conference (NLC), held February 7-9, 2014, in Cambridge.
Slideshow: 2014 WSRP National Leadership Conference
The WSRP National Leadership Conference, held annually in Cambridge, provides a unique opportunity to merge the groundbreaking findings of the program's scholars with the experiences of women leaders in the professions, philanthropy, and civic affairs.
Crossing the Border
On December 5, 2013, 12 Harvard students sat in a conference room in a Tucson, Arizona, courthouse with the city's public defender. "So," the public defender said, "you just came from watching 70 brown people shackled and tried for being economic refugees...
