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His Eminence Alhaji Muhammadu Sa'adu Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, was the featured speaker. Convened by Jacob Olupona, Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School, with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African...

James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and member of the Faculty of Divinity, won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, The Bible as It Was. The Award, a $200,000...

At first glance, it might appear that the five research associates with the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS this year don't have much in common—other than the fact that they're all women. To an extent probably greater than ever before, these...

What knowledge and assumptions about religion do faith-based and secular international humanitarian agencies have? How do these assumptions impact their work? What kind of knowledge about religion is most useful? Watch A symposium on January 19–20, 2017...

HDS Visiting Professor in Religion and Political Culture and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne outlines a path forward in his new book Code Red.

It's hard to pin Albert Raboteau down. Before earning his doctorate in religious history, he studied English literature and theology. Now, as a visiting professor at HDS, he's teaching a seminar on the intersection of literature and spirituality. He's...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton has been awarded the Albert C. Outler Prize by the American Society of Church History for his recent book, The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century (I.B. Tauris, 2011). The award is presented to the author of...

Read about the latest news and publications from HDS faculty. Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, gave the paper "Values and Ways of Knowing: Conflicts and Confluences between Buddhism and Medicine in Tibet" at Healing Texts, Healing...

Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS, discusses the Spiritualism movement in America during the nineteenth century, and how it helped bring women—and reformist ideas—into the public sphere.

Scholars Mohsen Goudarzi and Terenjit Sevea have each been named Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Sevea’s appointment is effective July 1, 2020, while Goudarzi’s appointment is effective July 1, 2021. Sevea is currently...

Romania has made significant progress in its trek from Communism, but the path toward change has been a long and difficult one. With that in mind, Romanian government officials organized a conference on religious freedom where they sought the insight of...

"For white Christian nationalists, taking back the country is about more than just political power. They see themselves as faithful patriots fulfilling the American Founders’ covenant with God to maintain a righteous Christian nation," writes Lauren R...