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Ahead of his book talk on April 20, CSWR director and HDS professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., opens up about the importance of comparing religious traditions, the difficulties of academic writing, and if loving God is harder today than it was centuries...

Divinity Hall was rededicated, 174 years after its original dedication, with a celebration that took place in front of one of Harvard Divinity School's oldest buildings. Amidst the anxieties, toils, pleasures, dissipations, and competitions of life, in...

Professor Harvey Cox recently met Pope Francis in Rome and gave him a copy of his latest book, The Market as God.

Five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects during the 2018–19 academic year.

Professor Stephanie Paulsell writes about how in her course on contemplative prayer, she assigns just six books—and she and student read them each twice.

"Enlightenment is all the brighter on the more richly diverse common ground where we meet every kind of believer and non-believer," writes Professor Frank Clooney in a rebuttle to Steven Pinker's new book Enlightenment Now.

Gazan architect Salem al Qudwa, 2020-21 Fellow in Conflict and Peace at HDS, and contributor to a new book called Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope, has developed a green, flexible, and affordable model for self-built homes in Gaza. They are designed to be...

Bazzana uncovers the truth about the book of Revelation in early Christianity—and today Coronavirus. Unemployment. Social unrest. People often describe the times we’re living in as “apocalyptic,” but Giovanni Bazzana wouldn’t necessarily agree. “Today...

In conjunction with the HDS Committee on Racial Justice and Healing and in cooperation with the courses "Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion" (T&M) and "Introduction to Ministry Studies" (IMS), Professors David Holland and Matthew Potts hosted a...

As we celebrate our nation's birth this July Fourth with parades, fireworks, and BBQs, we revisit the year 1776 to ask about the reasons for the American Revolution. What inspired thousands of ordinary Americans to risk their lives and fight against the...

John B. Carman, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Religion Emeritus at HDS, discusses Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959–2009: Decline and Revival in Telangana, a book he co-authored.

K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer on American Religious History and Ethics, writes that only by following former FBI director James Comey’s efforts to be a Niebuhrian can we fully understand his recent book, A Higher Loyalty, and begin to untangle some of the...