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The Pew Research Center recently released a report titled " America's Changing Religious Landscape." Among the findings detailed in the report were a decline in Americans who identify as Christian as a share of the population and a rise in Americans who...

Professor of Religion and Latina/o Studies Mayra Rivera cares about bodies: bodies sent to war, where they are harmed; bodies relegated to slums that are unhealthy or workplaces that are unsafe; bodies that are the place where flesh and blood meet spirit...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, this year’s Dudleian Lecture will feature a presentation on the movement’s connection to modernity. Paul C.H. Lim, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Associate Professor of Religious...

In the spring of 2006, Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School was contacted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., with an expressed interest in obtaining copies of the library's records of the Unitarian...

On February 1, Bill George, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, presented "The Role of Your Faith in Global Capitalism: Does It Have a Place?" The talk, held at the Harvard Faculty Club in...

At a faculty meeting on April 7, 2014, HDS professors Karen L. King and David D. Hall presented the following 'Memorial Minute' to pay tribute to their late friend and colleague. New Testament scholar and religious historian François Bovon passed away...

On October 10, 2012, four scholars spoke on the relevance of different religions in this year's presidential election. The panelists were: J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Kennedy...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor Dan McKanan about his fall 2017 class “Alternative Spiritualities in the United States,” which...

Several Harvard Divinity School faculty members will be in San Diego, California in late November to present during the 2019 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings. The conference, which takes place November 23-26...

News of the United States Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage reached San Francisco early in the morning on June 26. The city was already preparing to celebrate Pride weekend. The news meant that we started the party early. People met on the...

Dr. Wylin Wilson, an HDS Women’s Studies in Religion Program research associate, is a robust scholar who is deeply concerned with the ethics of her research. Wilson examines African American religions and women in the U.S., and her work often lends itself...

Two hundred years. Even in an institution as venerable as Harvard University, that's a long time. Harvard Divinity School, the nation's first nonsectarian theological school, will celebrate its bicentennial during the 2016–17 academic year with events and...