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Prayers for Peace and Justice

To mark the International Day of Peace, HDS has compiled a dozen prayers from various faith traditions and backgrounds. These prayers for peace were offered in Assisi, Italy, on the Day of Prayer for World Peace during the U.N. International Year of Peace...
Three children in Akko draw together and smile for the photographer's camera.

Video: Barren Landscapes and Open Spaces

How do our views of land and landscape influence our religious imagination, and vice versa? On September 13, the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted its opening event of the 2017–18 academic year, "Barren Landscapes and Open Spaces." The...
Barren Landscapes and Open Spaces

A Summer Between Two Homelands

This summer, thanks to several generous gifts in support of Dean David N. Hempton’s campaign initiatives, HDS continued its ongoing effort to provide students with financial support so that they can serve communities locally and abroad through...
Salwa Tareen

Humans of HDS: Religion and Suffering

Sarah Griffis, a fifth-year doctoral candidate, is currently writing a dissertation on the narrativization of suffering in antiquity, focusing on early Christian martyrdom texts and Greek tragedy.
Sarah Griffis

Transcript: Cornel West's 2017 Convocation Address

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West delivered the 2017 Convocation address titled "Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback." His remarks can be read below. A video of the ceremony and a recap are available...
Professor Cornel West

Hempton: Belonging at Harvard

HDS Dean David N. Hempton is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. On September 7, he spoke at the Morning Prayers service in The Memorial Church, Harvard...
HDS Dean David N. Hempton

Shopping Period: Pope Francis and the Future of Religion

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus Harvey Cox about his fall 2017 class “Pope Francis: His ‘Theology of the...
HDS Professor Harvey Cox