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Can We All Just Get Along?

October 30, 2013

Bitter budget fights. Political battles over same-sex marriage. Religious radio-show and television hosts demonizing opponents. Heated debates on gun control in the face of massacres. Why are Americans so polarized on so many issues, and what can be done...

War-weary Spirits

October 28, 2013

New exhibit at Andover-Harvard Theological Library is a window into belief and loss during the Civil War.

HDS Grad Wins $50,000 Whiting Prize

October 25, 2013

C.E. Morgan is among 10 emerging authors selected as winners of the $50,000 Whiting Writers' Awards for showing "exceptional talent and promise."

Anticipation High as Ways of Knowing Conference Approaches

October 21, 2013

In just a few days, 120 graduate students and early career scholars will converge at Harvard Divinity School for the second annual "Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion." The conference, held October 25-26, will feature panelists from 60...

Alumni Counsel

October 21, 2013

Jeff Seul, MTS '97, was restless. In 1995 he left a career as a successful corporate lawyer to study the contemplative practices of different religions at HDS. Midway through his first semester, though, Seul realized that an academic life was not for him...

Video: Divinity Dialogues: Jeff Seul and M. Brinton Lykes

October 20, 2013

On October 10, 2013, two distinguished HDS alumni shared stories of how their values, vision, and experiences at HDS have informed their service to others. Jeff Seul, MTS '97, chairman of the Peace Appeal Foundation and partner in the law firm of Holland...

Divinity Dialogues: Jeff Seul and M. Brinton Lykes

Video: Buddhist Ministry Colloquium

October 17, 2013

On October 17, 2013, the Buddhist Ministry Colloquium hosted the talk "Caste Politics in the Ambedkar Buddhist Movement." Christopher Queen, Lecturer at Harvard Extension, and Dr. Gail Omvedt, author of 'Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India' (Penguin...

Video: Female Piety in Contemporary Catholic Renewal and the Concept of Agency

October 16, 2013

Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology of Religion and WSRP Research Associate Sarah Bracke recently discussed her study of a Catholic Renewal women's group in Milan, Italy in 2000. Bracke, who is also an associate professor of the...

HDS Alum Aims to Rebuild Ailing Institution

October 16, 2013

HDS alumnus and Morehouse College President John S. Wilson Jr. on how education and religion are tied to his identity.

Beyond Heresy

October 15, 2013

Heresy. That's the way many in the Catholic and Protestant church hierarchies described the Coptic Christian literature discovered in Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that has been called "Gnostic." For Harvard Divinity School professor...

Video: The Vatican's Role in the Promulgation of Italy's 1938 Racial Laws

October 10, 2013

On October 7, 2013, David Kertzer, Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University, spoke about Pope Pius XI's complicity with Mussolini's fascist regime in 1930s Italy. Kertzer is...

Women on a Mission

October 09, 2013

Forthcoming book by HDS visiting lecturer Zilka Spahic-Siljak spotlights 11 voices of peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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