Pluralism

Religious leaders from the HDS community share spiritual resources for hard times The COVID-19 pandemic both engenders and accentuates the greatest challenges of the human condition: loneliness, loss, suffering, and mortality. Confronted with these, the...

The HDS community is home to practitioners and scholars of dozens of different religions—and to those who have no formal religious affiliation at all. One is as likely to bump into a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka on campus as a Unitarian Universalist from...

Zachary Davis, founder and host of the “ Ministry of Ideas” podcast, and Diane L. Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, have announced a partnership to bring contemporary issues in religion, philosophy, and history...

On his tenth birthday, Akhil Gupta’s mother cooked up a big batch of food to give to the poor in the old section of Delhi. Then she took her son down to their first stop, a Hindu temple. Next stop was the Sikh temple, then the places of worship for Jains...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor Dan McKanan about his fall 2017 class “Alternative Spiritualities in the United States,” which...

Robert Lawson Slater had seen the world at its worst. After serving as a medical orderly in World War I, Slater, a British Army chaplain, found himself caught in the middle of the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War II. After helping to evacuate...

Every Friday for two hours, 24 Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, and spiritual or not-religiously-identified HDS students gather for "America's Religious Pluralism: A Case Studies Approach," a seminar co-taught by HDS professor Diana Eck...

For twenty-five years, the Pluralism Project at Harvard has studied the changing religious landscape of the United States. “The Pluralism Project at 25: Diversity and Inclusion in the American Crucible,” co-sponsored with the El Hibri Foundation, marks...

On Aug. 5, 2012, a white supremacist walked into a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisc., and started shooting. The story of that horror, and the healing that came after, is the focus of a short documentary, "Waking in Oak Creek."

Professor Ali Asani, director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard, discusses the worldwide erosion of pluralism when it comes to respecting beliefs.