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On December 5, 2013, 12 Harvard students sat in a conference room in a Tucson, Arizona, courthouse with the city's public defender. "So," the public defender said, "you just came from watching 70 brown people shackled and tried for being economic refugees...

2014 William James lecturer T.M. Luhrmann talks about her work and the ways that members of evangelical communities worship and pray.

The first major winter storm hit the area in early December, but the bitter temperatures and slippery pavements didn't deter a group from the Harvard and Cambridge communities from their regular meeting. Despite biting sleet that turned several of inches...

Paul Farmer and HDS professor Davíd Carrasco discuss global health care and liberation theology.

On February 10, 2014, Rev. James Ishmael Ford, UU World online columnist, was a guest speaker of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School.

Religion can help drive real-world, grassroots organizing, panelists say.

On February 12, 2014, Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion and WSRP Research Associate Hsiao-wen Cheng spoke about her research. Her talk focused on medicine, exorcism, and female sexualities in medieval China.

Ahead of the inaugural Alwaleed Lecture, Ousmane Kane discusses his work and research and the transformation of Islamic identities.

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council is pleased to announce the 2014 recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors, inaugurated last year and given annually to a small group of graduates whose lives and work exemplify the mission and values of...

Partners in Health founder and Harvard's Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine Paul Farmer discussed how he was influenced by liberation theology. Farmer spoke with Davíd Carrasco, the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the...

by Jahnabi Barooah Americans in new, charismatic evangelical churches need to work harder than Ghanaians in theologically similar settings to make God real. This is the provocative thesis that Tanya Marie Luhrmann put forward at Harvard Divinity School's...

Renowned scholar of North American religious history Catherine Brekus has been named the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1, 2014. Brekus is currently Professor in Religions in...