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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.

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...

HDS students develop a deep and intellectually rigorous understanding of the world’s religious traditions and the ways in which they shape the lives of people everywhere. They learn to bridge divides of faith, culture, gender, and more by participating...

"The larger the problems are around us, the deeper we must go if we are to be spiritually alive, able to manifest God’s healing power in a world that seems anything but holy," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Dr. Leah Gunning Francis and Rev. Dr. David Anderson Hooker offer insights from the African-European American experience on intergenerational transmission of racialized divides and recommend spiritual and practical approaches for reconciliation. Details...

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...

For the first time, the World Economic Forum has invited religious and spiritual leaders, as well as experts on religion, to be part of its annual meeting, which is being held this year January 28-31 in Davos, Switzerland. Among the nearly 25 religion...

Anne E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, delivered the 2007-08 Convocation Address: "On the Question of Relevance: Why Twelfth-Century India and Haitian Voudou Matter." Kerry Maloney, director of religious and spiritual life, delivered the...

Ministry Innovation Fellows Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston discuss their work to understand where millennial Americans go to find community and how leaders can expand the spiritual offerings of traditional churches.

Members of the Harvard community, including MTS candidate Eboni Nash and Kerry Maloney, HDS chaplain and director of religious and spiritual life, discuss what they hope to see and do again, when COVID passes and we’re together on campus again.

Ralph DeFlorio, director of operations at HDS, and Munjed Murad, ThD candidate and Junior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religion, discuss the intersection of sustainability and religion. Murad is a panelist at "Spiritual and Sustainable...

In what ways does piety and the contemplative life encourage or discourage social change activism? A diverse panel of religious leaders explore how different religious traditions balance inner spiritual development with the mandate to work for economic...