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Aaron Zelin explores why jihadism grew so rapidly in Tunisia after the uprisings in 2011 in a lecture on April 27, 2015 at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. The lecture is part of the Junior Fellowship series,...

Marianne Moyaert explores the opportunities, challenges, and problems with liturgy in comparative theology. Read the article

Amy Hollywood discusses her recent publication, Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion. HDs professors Laura S. Nasrallah, Catherine Brekus, and Janet Gyatso serve as respondents.

How is the comparative scholarship on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam possible? What are its presuppositions, and what does it entail? How can the history of religions help interfaith understanding? These are some of the questions this lecture addresses.

Barbara Zimbalist, 2018–19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Visionary Translation, Divine Rhetoric, and Verbal Devotion in England, France, and the Low Countries."

On April 4, Louis Newman delivered this year's Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the CSWR at HDS. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies and director of Judaic Studies at Carleton College.

WSRP Research Associate Gwynn Kessler delivers the talk, “The Crooked and the Straight: Queer Theory and Biblical Interpretation.”

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.

Faculty and students discussed empathy as a means of bridging societal divides, especially in light of the recent election, at the Divinity School on Thursday.

Professor Rebecca Sachs Norris, Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College, presented the keynote lecture, "The Case of the Disappearing Body: Enculturation and Reflexivity as Embodied Knowledge and Means of Knowing," at the...

Join Karen Tse for this special bicentennial colloquium on “leading from within,” human rights as ministry, and how to leverage the HDS experience to effect global change. Listen on SoundCloud

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.”