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West Africa and the Maghreb: Reassessing Intellectual Connections in the 21st Century centers on the history of Muslim institutions and ideas in Africa. “West Africa and the Maghreb” is a part of the Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society conference...

25 years after the debacle now simply referred to as “Waco,” FBI officials and scholars from the American Academy of Religion gathered at Harvard Divinity School to reflect on how the crisis in Texas led to a new relationship between them–and on the...

Presented as a rational, scientific, and practical religion, modern Buddhism appears to have all the answers. Even the secular forms of mindfulness promise ever-increasing practitioners that Buddhist meditation will provide the solutions to all their...

Poet, teacher, librarian, and Harvard Scholar at Risk Mosab Abu Toha is doing important work for the people of Gaza and beyond. He is one of Harvard Divinity School's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellows this year.

Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions held a discussion titled “What is Psychedelic Chaplaincy?”, the purpose of which was to explore the role that spiritual caregivers might play among those seeking and undergoing psychedelic...

The recipients of the annual Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors are typically people who have changed the world: the minister who helps form an international nonprofit that enables formerly enslaved women and girls to reclaim their lives; the diplomat...

Vanessa Zoltan and Casper ter Kuile — both chaplains who were trained at the Harvard Divinity School — and the show's producer Ariana Nedelman seek to use religious reading practices to address what they see as a hole left by institutional religion.

This lecture, delivered by Kristin Bloomer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and South Asian Religions and WSRP Research Associate, is part of the series Comparative Theology: Lectures and Conversations, coordinated by CSWR Junior Fellow...

Graduating HDS students, their families, faculty, and staff participated in the 2016 Multireligious Commencement Service on May 25, 2016. Kimberley C. Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, gave the faculty address. Listen...

Professor Frank Clooney, the CSWR director, writes about nearing the end of a month-long visit to Melbourne and the Australian Catholic University, where he once again was a visiting research scholar and a kind of academic consultant in the Institute for...

Brooke Davis received a master of theological studies degree from HDS and a master of public policy degree from Harvard Kennedy School on May 29. In a short Q&A, she discusses the value of her HDS education and the ways in which her experiences at Harvard...

It was the mid-1970s and, after one year at Harvard Divinity School, Margaret Rose still had not found her calling. She had a passion for theology and for social justice, but wasn’t convinced that a career as a religious leader was for her, so she went...