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618 results for "World Religions"
618 results for "World Religions"

Faith in Diplomacy

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Shaun Casey, MDiv '83, ThD '98, sat with a local imam in a café in Sub-Saharan Africa. A careless word or gesture could cause offense and derail the important cross-cultural meeting. The conversation stalled, the coffee cooled, and Casey's curiosity got...

Q&A With Jocelyne Cesari: Islam and Democracy

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Jocelyne Cesari was Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at HDS for the 2004-05 academic year and has served as a research associate in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University since spring 2001. Her book When Islam and...

Three Distinguished HDS Faculty Retire

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Three highly regarded faculty with a combined 92 years of service to Harvard Divinity School retired on June 30, 2009. Harvey G. Cox, Jr., has been teaching at HDS and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1965. He arrived as Associate Professor of...

Laura S. Nasrallah Named 2013-14 Luce Fellow

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Laura S. Nasrallah, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, has been named one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (PDF) for 2013-14 by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and...

The CSWR Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J. is Parkman Professor of Divinity and outgoing director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, which he has led since July 2010. Matthew Weinstein, a second-year master of divinity degree candidate, spoke to...

A Student of Miracles

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Sevea studies the role of spirit mediums in the South and Southeast Asian Islamic world Teren Sevea grew up in a “universe of miracle workers.” They were in shrines, in cemeteries, in homes, and coffee shops, and, of course, on the streets of Southeast...

Video: Ecologies of Human Flourishing Book Event

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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...

Being Human in a Buddhist World

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Ten years in the making, the most recent book by Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, endeavors to "stand next to my colleagues from a Buddhist world," as she puts it, and "watch with empathy and care as they attempt to carve out a space...

Video: Even on Their Knees

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This lecture, featuring Michael Gibbons, field archaeologist in Ireland and expert on ancient and modern Irish pilgrimage traditions, occurred on December 8, 2008. Kimberley Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, hosted the...

Building Peace through Religious Understanding

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When Karen Vickers and Albert Budney went with their high school senior class to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, they were impressed by its theme of "Peace through Understanding"—so much so that 25 years later, after the couple had married, the...