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Video: Memory Eternal: The Presence of the Dead in Orthodox Christian Piety

November 04, 2010

Albert J. Raboteau, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University, delivered the 2010 Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality on November 4, 2010, on the HDS campus. Raboteau is a specialist in American religious history. His research and...

Video: Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality, and an Uncertain World

November 03, 2010

Drawing on Harvard Divinity School's distinguished tradition of comparative studies in religion and the resources of one of world's leading research universities, the Business across Religious Traditions series explores the opportunities and challenges...

In Troubled Times, Offering Safe Haven

November 01, 2010

The statistics are nearly too jarring to be true: globally, one-third of women report being physically or sexually abused by an intimate partner, according to the United States Department of Justice. Another one-third of all female homicide victims are...

Harvard Divinity Today, Fall 2010

November 01, 2010

In this issue: The Varieties of an HDS Experience; A Message From the Dean; News From Around the School; Not Knowing What to Expect, Diving in Headfirst; In Troubled Times, Offering Safe Haven Download this issue

HDS's Sustaining Mission

October 21, 2010

On a warm October afternoon, 50 students, faculty, and staff members from the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) convened at the HDS Community Garden, located on an 800-square-foot plot behind the Center for the Study of World Religions. The gathering featured...

Harvey Cox Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

October 15, 2010

Harvey Cox, Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at HDS, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony in Cambridge on Saturday, October 9. The program officially welcomed the Academy's 230th class of Fellows, celebrating...

Panel at HDS Discusses Religious Debates Over Sexuality

October 13, 2010

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) hosted “Queer Youth and Religious Debates over Sexuality,” a panel discussion held Oct. 7 on queer youth in the United States and their relationship to religion and the church. Cheryl A. Giles, Peabody Professor of the...

Ceremony Marks Opening of CSWR Meditation Room

October 06, 2010

The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School dedicated its new nondenominational meditation room in a ceremony on Monday, October 4. New CSWR director Francis X. Clooney presided over the event, which drew a large audience...

Melding Spanish and Spirituality

September 08, 2010

Harvard Divinity School students will have a new teaching tool at their disposal this fall. In addition to classes in Coptic, classical Arabic, and biblical Hebrew, students will be able to take a course in Spanish that is designed to help their day-to...

Divinity School Professor Wins Book Award for Excellence

September 02, 2010

Kimberley C. Patton, professor of the comparative and historical study of religion at Harvard Divinity School, is among the recipients of the awards for excellence in the study of religion and the best first book in the history of the religions, awarded...

New Meaning in the Familiar