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Anna Sun, 2018–19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China."

During a recent HDS forum on violence, freedom of expression, and justice, panelists raised questions about free speech and its limitations.

Climate change is a stark reminder of our thoroughgoing interconnectedness. Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi and Dr. Julie A. Nelson explore Buddhist resources that can help us to care for the earth and all of its inhabitants, and how these resources can be brought to...

Presented as a rational, scientific, and practical religion, modern Buddhism appears to have all the answers. Even the secular forms of mindfulness promise ever-increasing practitioners that Buddhist meditation will provide the solutions to all their...

In this talk, Buddhist teacher and minister Anam Thubten discusses his journey from Golok, in Eastern Tibet, to teaching Buddhist wisdom with an American community. This talk is part of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative Speaker Series.

Professor Rebecca Sachs Norris, Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College, presented the keynote lecture, "The Case of the Disappearing Body: Enculturation and Reflexivity as Embodied Knowledge and Means of Knowing," at the...

HDS faculty and friends remember Professor Helmut Koester during a memorial service on May 6, 2016. Koester, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus, passed away on New Year’s Day, 2016, at...

On the anniversary of 9/11, Dean David N. Hempton speaks to the students of Trinity School in New York City about violence, conflict, and remembrance. Read coverage of this event

West Africa and the Maghreb: Reassessing Intellectual Connections in the 21st Century centers on the history of Muslim institutions and ideas in Africa. “West Africa and the Maghreb” is a part of the Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society conference...

On April 1, 2014, Harvard Divinity School hosted a symposium on Religion and the Media. The symposium featured Harvard's Jean Comaroff, Jacob Olupona, and Marla Frederick as well as Brian Goldstone (Columbia University), Simon Coleman (University of...

Charles Stang, HDS Professor of Early Christian Thought, discusses his recent publication, Our Divine Double. Gregory Shaw (Stonehill College) and Benjamin Dunning (Fordham University) serve as respondents. Listen on SoundCloud

Sound Education was a 3-day event at Harvard University for educational and academic podcasters and radio hosts, and their listeners. It was hosted by Ministry of Ideas, a podcast based at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). Learn more about the event here...