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His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, spoke to a capacity crowd at Harvard's Memorial Church on Thursday, March 26. The Karmapa's talk, "Caring for Life on Earth in the Twenty-first Century," was sponsored by HDS, the Harvard...

Sharon Betcher, Professor of Theology at Vancouver School of Theology, delivered this presentation as part of the 2012-13 colloquium series "Science, Religion, and the Body." Science, Religion, and the Body will explore themes of gender and sexuality in...

A conversation with Ernesto Valiente, Professor of Theology at Boston College, and the Honorable Jose E. Aleman, Consul General of El Salvador for New England. Valiente spoke to the theological foundation of Romero and its transformative effects on his...

Part of the Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series, this event was held on October 6, 2016, and featured 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. Listen on...

Climate change may finally be making headlines, but it is far from news. Addressing an overflow crowd at “The Land and the Waters Are Speaking: Indigenous Views on Climate Change” at Andover Hall on April 4, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, an Eskimo Kalaallit...

Scholarship on globalization of Islamic Africa has been focused either on merely describing (if not romanticizing) African Muslims’ experiences abroad, on one hand, or on exploring how Muslim societies in Africa are affected by global Islamic trends, on...

View a slideshow of images from the Business across Religious Traditions seminar, held February 1 in New York City. Photos by Wendy Barrows. Bill George, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and former chairman and CEO of Medtronic...

On September 25, 2013, the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at HDS, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, presented the talk 'Is Health Care a Spiritual Discipline?' by Dr. Daniel Sulmasy. Sulmasy is the Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine...

On November 7, 2013, David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School, and Stephen Prothero, Professor of Religion at Boston University, spoke about the importance of religious literacy and why government leaders and educators should not ignore the...

This timely lecture was delivered on October 2, 2012, by Randall Balmer, chair of the Religion Department and Mandel Family Professor of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College. John F. Kennedy's address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on...

The Harvard Divinity School Buddhist Community (HBC) hosted the Fifth Annual Buddhism and Race Conference: Centering Intersectionalities, on March 8, 2019 at Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. During this conference, scholars, sangha leaders...

As part of the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, this panel reflects on the interaction between religion scholars and law enforcement officials over the past 25 years and what may be learned from that experience to inform interaction going...