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Religious leaders "have little support and little training in dealing with issues related to sexual and gender-based violence" (SGBV), concludes the new "Interrogating the Silence" report from the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity...

Race and religion are among the best predictors of how Americans choose a president. Race and religion are also bases for political compromises that call into question our moral credibility on issues ranging from voting rights to police brutality. Cornell...

Mark U. Edwards, Jr., a former professor of the History of Christianity at HDS from 1987 to 1994, and acting dean of the School for eight months in 1990-91, has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs and special programs. He took over from...

Five new Research Associates will join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects during the 2019–20 academic year. By bringing together scholars from different disciplines and research areas, commonalities in religion...

Barber looks at the way religion shapes HIV transmission, treatment, and prevention Darius (not his real name) grew up African American and gay in the socially conservative American South. Life wasn’t easy, but his mother loved and sheltered him. He...

On March 20, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Smith College, spoke about her latest book, Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World, as part of the "African, Diasporic, and Indigenous Religions in Conversation"...

Stephanie Paulsell has been appointed Associate Dean for Ministerial Studies and Senior Lecturer on Ministry, effective July 1, 2003. She replaces Nancy Richardson, who is beginning a phased retirement but will continue to teach at HDS. "We are very...

When we think about diabetes, we often think of it as a biological, even scientific problem that sits snugly within the domain of doctors and healthcare professionals, impervious to the kind of investigation conducted in departments of religion and...

On October 28, Sallie McFague, Distinguished Theologian in Residence, Vancouver School of Theology, delivered the 2009-10 Dudleian Lecture as part of the "Ecologies of Human Flourishing Series" sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions. A...

Under a tent on the HDS Campus Green, behind Andover Hall, members of the HDS community gathered on August 29, 2013, to welcome a new academic year. Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies, delivered the ceremony's...

Three highly regarded faculty with a combined 92 years of service to Harvard Divinity School retired on June 30, 2009. Harvey G. Cox, Jr., has been teaching at HDS and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1965. He arrived as Associate Professor of...

Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies Stephanie Paulsell was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 24, 2017. Below are her remarks: Professor Walton, Dean Hempton, dear colleagues...