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Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, discusses the recent tensions between the academic and faith communities.

What are the moral questions that underlie issues of money in politics, corporate power, and wealth in democracy? What resources do we find in our various religious traditions to help us approach these questions with thoughtful consideration, moral...

Francisca Cho proposes that Buddhist epistemic frameworks regarding the nature of ritual apparitions offer an account of the religious possibilities of film that is absent in Western phenomenological conversations on the same topic.

Ann Braude, Senior Lecturer on American Religious History and Director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at HDS, describes the purpose and origin of the WSRP.

For twenty-five years, the Pluralism Project at Harvard has studied the changing religious landscape of the United States. “The Pluralism Project at 25: Diversity and Inclusion in the American Crucible,” co-sponsored with the El Hibri Foundation, marks...

Graham Harvey, professor of religious studies at The Open University (UK), discusses animism and how our relations are damaged by ongoing efforts to separate (human) culture from ‘nature’ and humans from other species.

A panel discussion on the book The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy & Pastoral Work, coedited by Cheryl A. Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling at HDS.

Lawrence Levy, the former CFO of Pixar and co-founder of the Juniper Foundation, discusses mindfulness, contemporary and corporate America, and his transition from full-time corporate executive to meditation teacher.

WSRP Research Associate Changshen Shi (Ching-ning Wang) delivers the talk, "The Making of A Modern Female Chan Teacher: Gender, Religion, and Modernity."

This discussion considers social scientific research shedding light on religion’s role in advancing cooperation within groups, as well as its complex role in competition and cooperation among groups. Speakers Omar Sultan Haque, MD, PhD, MTS, Program in...

This event is part of a larger collaboration between the Planetary Health Alliance and the Harvard Divinity School called “The Constellation Project,” led by Dr. Sam Myers and Terry Tempest Williams, which brings together science, faith, arts, and...

Violence is not inevitable in stressed and oppressed communities and the building of peace in those communities requires the building of bridges between unlikely collaborators. That's the lesson learned in Boston over three decades of trying to change the...