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Presented as a rational, scientific, and practical religion, modern Buddhism appears to have all the answers. Even the secular forms of mindfulness promise ever-increasing practitioners that Buddhist meditation will provide the solutions to all their...

On November 12, 2013, the Science, Religion, and Culture program at HDS welcomed Dr. Alessandro de Franciscis, who spoke about his professional background and his experience as the president of the Lourdes Office of Medical Observations.

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.

Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) Research Associates share their thoughts on the ethical responsibility of scholars to be engaged in the study of gender.

WSRP Research Associate Changshen Shi (Ching-ning Wang) delivers the talk, "The Making of A Modern Female Chan Teacher: Gender, Religion, and Modernity."

How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease? Rooted in the prophet’s experiences with medicine and healing, Muslim pietistic literature developed cosmologies in which physical suffering and medical interventions interacted with religious...

On March 1, 2019, Harvard Divinity School hosted its third annual Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference. The theme was Blackness at the Margins. The conference aimed to represent and engage with as many aspects of blackness as possible...

Evolution is an organizing principle of the living world. While competition is integral to evolution, cooperation can be seen as the master architect of biological complexity, language, and culture. Human beings have emerged from this evolutionary process...

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad engages with the intersectional nature of his Hindu identity through three key textual passages. This examination of Hinduism and intersectionality offered a new perspective on how identity is creatively and constantly reconfigured...

On April 26, as part of HDS's celebration and recognition of the Deanship of William A. Graham, a panel of HDS faculty members reflected on his accomplishments over the last decade and spoke about the future of the School.

Professors of the Divinity School's new edX scriptures course shared an array of teaching strategies and resources from each of the six course modules at an introductory panel in Andover Hall on March 1.

On the anniversary of 9/11, Dean David N. Hempton speaks to the students of Trinity School in New York City about violence, conflict, and remembrance. Read coverage of this event