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Video: Jimmy Carter's Call to Action

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Speaking to a capacity crowd inside Harvard's Memorial Church on November 19, former President Jimmy Carter enlightened those in attendance to the driving factors behind his latest book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. During his...

Student Profile: Paula Smith

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Paula Smith was 33 years old the first time she encountered a female minister. That minister was the Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, Chaplain of Brown University, who happens to be an alumna of Harvard Divinity School. The two became friends after Smith...

For Peace's Sake

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Based on in-depth interviews with Jewish Palestine solidarity activists and a study of Jewish solidarity movements on social media, Atalia Omer demonstrates in When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and...

Is Misbehavin'

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The Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, MDiv '97, says that she used to be a "well-behaved woman." She was a devoted wife and mother, a good doctor, and was active in her local parish. Then she came to Harvard Divinity School and learned to misbehave. "Well...

Advice to the Incoming Class

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HDS welcomed scores of new graduate students to campus during Orientation, which kicked off the week of August 24. The 2015-16 incoming class includes approximately 120 students who represent about 20 religious traditions. They come from 32 states and...

Joining the Effort to 'Bring Back Our Girls'

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On April 15, 2014, members of the jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school in northern Nigeria and threatened to " sell them in the market, by Allah, in an effort to end Western education." Nations around the world condemned...

Portraying a Finer Picture of Islam

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A day or two after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, journalist Monique Parsons, MTS '91, was glued to her television set, watching the major news organizations' coverage of the events. At some point, one of the anchors asked, "Why do they hate...

The Importance of Understanding the Sociology of Religion

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Warren Goldstein is a sociologist of religion teaching at HDS. While his research aims to develop a critical sociology of religion as a "new paradigm" in the sociology of religion, he is more broadly interested in the development of a critical paradigm in...

Sustaining Peace: The Role of Ethics, Law, and Policy

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On May 3, the RPP Colloquium dinner series hosted by Religions and the Practice of Peace (RPP) will feature lifelong peace advocate Benjamin B. Ferencz, JD '43 Harvard Law School (HLS), the lead prosecutor and last living prosecutor of the Nüremberg...