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A lecture with Marcell Sass, Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education, University of Münster, Germany and visiting fellow at the CSWR.

Professor Jon Levenson writes about the new Museum of the Bible and how there is no universal way to read or exhibit the bible.

After completing the review process for over 300 paper proposals submitted to the 2013 "Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference on Religion," I am happy to announce that 120 graduate students and early-career scholars will gather to present their research at...

Little could a wealthy London merchant know that his gift to Harvard in 1721 would transform how students are taught in today’s universities.

The Very Reverend Jane Shaw, MDiv '88, has been named dean for religious life at Stanford University.

Janet Gyatso, who taught in the religion department at Amherst College for the previous 11 years, was appointed the first Hershey Chair in Buddhist Studies in 2001. The new professorship at Harvard Divinity School focuses on "the thought, practice, and...

Delivering this year's Convocation address, entitled "Schools Visible and Invisible," was Mark Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at HDS. The ceremony included a welcome from Dean David N. Hempton, music by Christopher...

The late HDS professor and Harvard chaplain Peter J. Gomes's portrait is the first of a person of color to hang in the storied Faculty Room in University Hall.

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

It’s hard to extract universal philosophical or political lessons from a set of books that is so resolutely particular, explains Professor Jon D. Levenson.

Georgetown University Professor Diane Yeager reviews the late Bussey Professor of Theology and former dean of Harvard Divinity School Ronald F. Thiemann's The Humble Sublime.

Lawrence S. Bacow, a widely admired higher education leader who previously served as Tufts president and MIT chancellor, will become the University's next president in July.