India

The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School dedicated its new nondenominational meditation room in a ceremony on Monday, October 4. New CSWR director Francis X. Clooney presided over the event, which drew a large audience...

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including, most recently, Beyond Compare: St. Francis and Sri Vedanta Desika on...

In the middle of the Braun Room, closely surrounded by onlookers, Los­ang Samten stood over the colorful sand mandala, which he'd spent the bet­ter part of two days creating, and smiled while others swept it away. The creation, and subsequent ceremonial...

In 1990, Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan had no idea that he would one day be a divinity school student, let alone that he would find his calling bridging the worlds of spirituality and psychiatry as a multifaith hospital chaplain.

Harvard supported research on religion and culture earlier this year at the Kumbh Mela, which gathers millions of people in India from various castes, classes, and regions.

HDS professor Diana Eck and a team from Harvard map the Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest gathering.

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...