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With all of the excitement around U.S. and Cuban relations finally opening up there is a host of questions around race and religion that are fundamental to the lives of Afro-Cuban religious practitioners left to be asked.

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin have served as the faculty deans of Lowell House for 20 years. This spring they will step down.

Representatives of three of the world’s major religions tangled over the beginnings of human life, the disposal of surplus embryos from in vitro fertilization clinics, and the conduct of embryonic stem cell research at HDS.

The Venerable Losang Samten’s hands had to be steady as a surgeon’s as he engaged in the painstaking process of creating a “Wheel of Life” sand mandala during a week-long residency recently at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard...

Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at HDS, is the recipient of the alumni professional achievement award from McDaniel College. Carrasco graduated from McDaniel (formerly Western Maryland) College with a bachelor’s...

Faithful Democrats, an online Christian community dedicated to working for the common good, recently announced the recipients of the 2009 Faithful Democrats Fellowship for Emerging Leaders. This distinction is given annually to top emerging leaders in...

It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent passing of John Whitehead, a member of the HDS Dean's Council, honorary chair of the Campaign for HDS, and a great friend to the School for more than a generation. John was not an alumnus of HDS—he...

HDS alumni George Rupp, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, and Karen Tse spoke about human rights and religion at the launch of the Campaign for HDS.

Saying that "inequality is the root of social evil," Pope Francis has made economic justice a focus of his papacy. With young Americans turning away from organized faith communities, though, can religion really play a part in progressive social movements...

"A shot of adrenaline." That's how Amy Post, a practicing interfaith minister in New York, described this year's Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) National Leadership Conference (NLC), held February 7-9, 2014, in Cambridge.

Few changes have been more dramatic in the long history of Harvard Divinity School than the inclusion of women—both as scholars and the subject of scholarship. In that context, 1973 was a milestone. That year, HDS established its Women’s Studies in...

When Marcus Briggs-Cloud, MTS ’10, began to sing in his native Muscogee language in the main hall at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology this past October, it was a testament to the survival of his community and culture through centuries of...