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On December 4, 2013, Gary Anderson, Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, spoke about the concept of charity in Jewish and Christian thought.

Kenneth W. Morgan died at the age of 103 on December 23, 2011, bringing a long life of accomplishment to a close. In noting his death here, the Center for the Study of World Religions also wants to celebrate all that Kenneth Morgan did that continues to...

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) announces a major gift to support and expand its program in Buddhist ministry studies. The gift will provide exceptional funding to enhance and expand the strength of the School's current offerings and will help to form a new...

Professors Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Francis Schüssler Fiorenza both received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University.

On Thursday, October 1, Steven Kepnes, director of the Chapel House and chair of the Department of Religion at Colgate University, will deliver the Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR).

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation recently announced the selection of 22 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2013. Among them are Harvard doctoral candidates in history Philippa Hetherington and Caroline Spence, as well...

Harvard University was founded in 1636 with the aim of advancing learning and developing an educated ministry that could help guide communities in North America. The Harvard Divinity School (HDS) was established in 1816 to help further that mission.

Katharine Gerbner, McKnight Land-Grant Professor and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, discusses how religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world.

Alicia Izharuddin (University of Malaya), Visiting Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islam, gives a lecture entitled “‘Bureaucratic Islam and the Romance Industry in Southeast Asia.”

Professor Francis Clooney shares the homily he delivered at the jubilee Mass at Fordham University in New York. For Clooney, 2018 has been his jubilee year celebrating 50 years a Jesuit.

HDS has undertaken an audacious project to combine critical thinking about religion with the training of religious leaders in the context of a research university.

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.