WSRP Announces 2017–18 Research Associates
Their research spans history, religions, and academic fields, and next year, five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects.
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Production, Praise, and Black Girl Magic: 2017 Billings Preaching Competition
Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...
Terry Tempest Williams to Join HDS as Writer-in-Residence
Writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams will join HDS as a writer-in-residence for the 2017-18 academic year. During her year at HDS, Williams will spend time contemplating and writing about the spiritual implications of climate change and will lead a...
Video: The Logic of Prayer in Contemporary China
Dr. Anna Sun, HDS Berggruen Fellow and Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College gives a lecture based on her research project for the year, “The Logic of Prayer in Contemporary China.”
Resurfacing Religion in Contemporary China
Anna Sun, Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College, is Harvard Divinity School’s second Berggruen Fellow. Her research focuses on the revival of Confucianism as a religion in contemporary China. She also works on larger...
Todne Thomas Named Assistant Professor of African American Religions at HDS, Radcliffe
Todne Thomas, an anthropologist who specializes in religion, race, and kinship, has been named Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School and a Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for...
Video: The Market As God
On April 18, Harvey Cox, HDS Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, discussed his recent publication, The Market as God, at the Center for the Study of World Religions.
Religion: Millennials Looking Elsewhere
Harvard Divinity School staff, alumni, and students discuss on WCVB's Chronicle what's driving millennials to find religion in unusual places.
Humans of HDS: An Inclusive and Loving Islam
"I started studying religion more fully and more broadly when I went to college. I realized that as a Muslim woman, my voice and my experience was being used to perpetuate a discourse that didn’t include me on either side." —Alizeh Ahmad, MTS ’18
Video: New Poems and a Talk on Syrian Artists in Exile
Eliza Griswold, a poet, writer, and journalist, reads from poems she's written this year at HDS, and present the blueprint of her Berggruen Fellowship project mapping Syrian artists, filmmakers, poets, and writers since the revolution began. Listen
Janet Gyatso Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
HDS Professor Janet Gyatso has been named among this year’s class of national and international leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gyatso, the Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic...
Video: 2016 Billings Preaching Prize Finals
HDS students Jiaying Ding, Sally Fritsche, and Chandra Plowden deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 12, 2017. The annual preaching competition is open to second- and third-year MDiv students. In...
