Gender

Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School discusses the history of women and religion and how religion has defined gender roles.

Believing that a month should be dedicated to the celebration and teaching of gay and lesbian history, Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, gathered other educators and community leaders to discuss the issue in 1994. The group selected October...

Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding at HDS, discusses women rights, Islam, and democracy at the intersection of the Islamic tradition and governance during a seminar in Rome on November 14, 2018...

On a recent autumn afternoon in a packed Braun Room on the HDS campus, Anna Sun, a 2018–19 research associate in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS, spoke about her research project this year, titled, “Women in Prayer: Gendered Religious Life...

"If you undermine my humanity in a fundamental way, abuse me in a way that occasions or perpetuates a trauma in me, that’s not a loss that can be so simply recovered," says Professor Matthew Potts.

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, HDS student Bo Clay chats with HDS Professor Mark Jordan, who has written extensively in the field of sexual ethics, about...

Vanessa Zoltan graduated from HDS with a master of divinity degree in 2015. She is currently a research assistant at HDS and, alongside fellow alum Casper ter Kuile, co-hosts the popular podcast “ Harry Potter and the Sacred Text .” She delivered the...

Last week, a fellow HDS alumnus, Presbyterian pastor and author C. R. Wiley wrote a piece that appeared on the Christian blog Patheos, under the title “On Getting and Keeping Masculine Men in Church.” I was interested to read the piece because, as a man...

In this panel of the Beyond Bans, Beyond Walls: Women, Gender & Islam Symposium, Zulfiyya Abdurahimova, Mariam Durrani, Nadeem Mazen, and Haley Rogers, discuss political movements and resistance. Listen

Why don't faith leaders address sexual and gender-based violence in their communities, even when they know about it? What can be done to break this silence? And what role can educational institutions play? These were some of the questions set before a...