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Former directors, residents, and students of the Center for the Study of World Religions discuss the different eras of the Center’s history of studying religion.

This conversation was presented on August 27, 2020, by the HDS Women’s Studies in Religion Program, which brings five scholars in gender from around the country each year to enrich the experience of HDS students. The research associates shared their...

HDS professor Beverly Mayne Kienzle discusses her recent book, The Solutions to 38 Questions of Hildegard of Bingen, with two respondents, Catherine M. Mooney and Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) Research Associate Alison More.

The HBC Conference on Buddhism and Race in America explored the relationship between Buddhist theory and practice and contemporary issues of race and diversity in America. Local sangha leaders, anti-racism specialists, and HDS students shared their...

This event celebrated the publication of the CSWR's latest volume in its Religions of the World and Ecology series: "Ecologies of Human Flourishing." The event featured David Eckel, Professor of Religion at Boston University, as a discussant of the volume...

Join Karen Tse for this special bicentennial colloquium on “leading from within,” human rights as ministry, and how to leverage the HDS experience to effect global change. Listen on SoundCloud

HDS Convocation was held Thursday, August 30, 2012, on the Campus Green. New Dean David N. Hempton drew on the memory of violence he witnessed in Northern Ireland to offer hopeful visions for the future. Kevin J. Madigan, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical...

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Doblmeier, Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School, and project director Andrew Finstuen discuss Doblmeier's documentary on Reinhold Niebuhr, An American Conscience: The...

This talk contradicts the longstanding reading of Emerson as invested in idealism and instead charts his obsession with matter both organic and inorganic, organized and unorganized. By attending to his interest in sciences of life, Branka Arsić...

Michael Marder discusses the paradox of “excessive heat” that, on the one hand, signals the ardency of faith and the love of God and, on the other, the effect of sin configured as ariditas (dryness), undoing viriditas (the greening green, a self...

On April 3, the alumni recipients of the Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial Honors spoke at the final Divinity Dialogues event of the 2013-14 academic year. The panelists were: Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS '84; Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93...

Acclaimed expert on biblical, gnostic, and apocryphal writings, Willis Barnstone explores the question, were early Christians Pharisee Jews like Saint Paul? Barnstone is a poet and translator of ancient and modern texts. A four-time recipient of the Book...