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“Recently, I have realized that, at the bottom of everything, I came to the study of South Asian religion and Indian philosophy because I couldn’t imagine not reading Sanskrit every day.”— Eliot Davenport, MTS '18

Jeremy Sher was at a dead end. A 1999 MIT graduate with a degree in mathematics, Sher had a flourishing career in technology, but his heart wasn't in it. He felt called to life as a rabbi but couldn't attend traditional schools that prohibit interfaith...

There’s an important but underappreciated dimension in The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most well-known books by W.E.B. Du Bois. Anthony Pinn, MDiv ’89, calls it “the problem soul.” Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of...

Asked how HDS professors Catherine Brekus and David Holland came to co-teach "Narratives of American Religion: The Canon and Its Revisions," Brekus said the decision to collaborate was made quickly. "David said, 'That sounds like a fun course,' and I said...

Why don't faith leaders address sexual and gender-based violence in their communities, even when they know about it? What can be done to break this silence? And what role can educational institutions play? These were some of the questions set before a...

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, writes about John O'Malley, S.J., who was awarded a Centennial Medal by the Harvard Alumni Association.

As part of the Divinity School's Leadership Day, held April 5, Harvard President Drew Faust and HDS Dean David Hempton sat down to discuss the role of the study of religion and spiritual life in the 21st century—at Harvard and beyond. The talk was...

Frank Clooney had a busy sabbatical year. In 2013, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and director of HDS's Center for the Study of World Religions published his latest book, His Hiding Place is Darkness, which “explores the uncertainties of love and faith...

In November 2018, the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature sponsored a session “Krister among the Jews and Gentiles,” to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Krister Stendahl, who taught at HDS from 1954-1989, with a hiatus to...

Master’s degree in religion, check. Dissertation for a doctoral degree (involving ethnographic study of people raised in the fundamentalist Christian tradition who ultimately broke away from it through arts intervention), check. Organic sandwich cart...

This lecture was delivered by CSWR visiting scholar Ulrich Winkler, Associate Professor, Department of Systematic Theology, and deputy director, Center for Intercultural Theology and the Study of Religion, University of Salzburg, Austria.

One of the problems about being pope, said HDS professor Francis Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, is the immensely diverse set of political situations with which a pontiff’s words carry weight.