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Video: Contesting the Local in the Global: African Christianities Within the Religious Cosmos

March 03, 2020

On February 27, Afe Adogame, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society at Princeton Theological seminary and leading scholar of the African diaspora, delivered the Hackett Lecture in Global Christianity. This lecture examined how and to what...

Video: The Jew as Migrant: From Theory to Poetry

March 02, 2020

On February 25, Vivian Liska, Professor of German literature and director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, delivered the annual List Lecture in Jewish Studies at the CSWR. The Jew as archetypal migrant is a...

Video: Fourth Annual Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference

March 02, 2020

The fourth annual Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference was held February 28, 2020. This year's theme was Black Womxn at the Center, highlighting Black womxn doing praxis-driven work in academia, ministry, and the arts, all broadly-defined...

'Making Time to Get Quiet, Pray, and Listen'

February 28, 2020

Sally Hammel, MDiv candidate and a seminarian at Memorial Church, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 27, 2020. ♦♦♦

Remembering Inés M. Talamantez, Influential Scholar of Native American Religious Traditions

February 28, 2020

Harvard Divinity School joins the rest of the religious studies community in honoring the life of Inés M. Talamantez, Professor of Native American Religious Traditions at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Talamantez, once a visiting...

Video: Girlhood and the Making of American Catholicism

February 26, 2020

On February 20, Monica L. Mercado (Colgate University), Visiting Assistant Professor of North American Religions, gave the lecture, “Girlhood and the Making of American Catholicism."

Swami Sarvapriyananda on Upanishads and Their Central Message

February 24, 2020

Swami Sarvapriyananda, one of three Hindu monastics in residence at HDS this school year, discusses the Upanishads, their powerful message, the Four Great Sentences, and throws light on Ashtavakra Gita.

The Pope, the Amazon, and Pachamama

February 24, 2020

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., on how Catholics are to make sense of indigenous imagery and practices that come alive in very localized Catholic practices and images.

'Gifts My Dad Shared with Me'

February 24, 2020

Beth Flaherty, director of financial aid, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 24, 2020. ♦♦♦

Amid Culture Wars and Climate Wars

February 20, 2020

K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History and Ethics, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on February 20, 2020. ♦♦♦

Video: The Intelligence Revolution and the New Attention Economy: An Ethical Singularity

February 19, 2020

Considerable attention has been directed to the possibility of a technological singularity when artificial intelligences “wake up” and start acting in their own self-interest. Long before then, however, humanity will confront an ethical singularity—a...

Video: Becoming the Beloved Community in the Midst of Domestic Terror

February 13, 2020

This lecture is a womanist critique of a longstanding racist campaign of domestic terror in the United States. It investigated the intersectionality of racism, in particular the racist acts condoned by religious communities and by the health care system...