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Clooney: Who Gets to Be a Prophet?

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"If we are Christians in more than name only...we need to become familiar with the voice of God calling us individually by name, to upset things, shaking society and politics and the religious establishment too."—HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Humans of HDS: Potpourri Identity

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Mushfiqur Rahman Chowdhury is studying religion, ethics, and politics at HDS. He has a passion for peacebuilding, and last summer he worked as a counselor for Seeds of Peace, helping Jewish and Muslim youth engage in interfaith dialogue, healing, and...

Video: Buddhist Ministry Colloquium

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On October 17, 2013, the Buddhist Ministry Colloquium hosted the talk "Caste Politics in the Ambedkar Buddhist Movement." Christopher Queen, Lecturer at Harvard Extension, and Dr. Gail Omvedt, author of 'Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India' (Penguin...

Inside the Classroom: The Examined Life

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“The Examined Life,” a course taught by HDS professors David Lamberth and Cornel West, breaks conventions. In many classes across Harvard, discussions about the implications of theories on contemporary lived experience don’t take center stage. The main...

The New Wave

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Harvard Divinity School has long been at the forefront of the study of religion. From the New Testament scholarship of Helmut Koester and Krister Stendahl to the founding of the Center for the Study of World Religions and the Women’s Studies in Religion...

Robert Orsi to Join HDS Faculty as Charles Warren Professor

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Robert Orsi, who has taught in the department of religious studies at Indiana University for the last 12 years, has accepted Harvard Divinity School’s invitation to become the Charles Warren Professor of American Religious History, pending approval by the...

Video: Doris Salcedo's Circles of Sorrow

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Edwidge Danticat brings her unparalleled gifts as a writer in touch with political violence and migration to respond to The Materiality of Mourning, Harvard Art Museum’s exhibition of the works of Colombian-born sculptor Doris Salcedo. Danticat’s lecture...

Growing as a Scholar at the CSWR

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Shaireen Rasheed has been a visiting scholar for the 2014–15 academic year at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, where she has worked on a manuscript that explores the ethical concept of sexuality, Islam, and the war...

The Diplomats

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Steven Simon’s warning in the January 4, 2000, edition of the New York Times was like cold water in the face of Americans still bleary-eyed from partying like it was 1999. Simon, fresh from a counterterrorism assignment in the Clinton White House, and his...