Politics and Religion

On March 30, 2012, David N. Hempton, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at HDS, was named the 14th Dean of Harvard Divinity School. In keeping with a long-standing tradition, Harvard President Drew Faust came the HDS...

On October 10, 2012, four scholars spoke on the relevance of different religions in this year's presidential election. The panelists were: J. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Kennedy...

This timely lecture was delivered on October 2, 2012, by Randall Balmer, chair of the Religion Department and Mandel Family Professor of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College. John F. Kennedy's address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on...

India is choosing a new government. Many pundits predict that the country's 814 million voters will make Narendra Modi, head of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the next prime minister of the world's largest democracy when the election ends on May 12 and...

by Colleen Walsh, Harvard Gazette Harvard Divinity School Dean David Hempton knows too well the cost of religious conflict. As a college student in Belfast in the 1970s, he witnessed the 'tragedies of violence' that marked 'The Troubles' between the...

Jeremy Bird's work for President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign sent him all over the country: South Carolina, Ohio, Chicago, and eventually the White House. In some ways, though, the 2002 Harvard Divinity School graduate is closer than ever to...

Ousmane Kane, a renowned scholar of Islamic studies and comparative and Islamic politics, has been appointed as the first Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at HDS. He will take up the new position July 1...

Harvard University President Drew Faust announced today that David Hempton will become dean of Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1. Hempton, the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at the Divinity School, succeeds...

David Hempton made these remarks following Harvard President Drew Faust's introduction of him as the next Dean of Harvard Divinity School at a reception at HDS on March 30, 2012. My thanks to President Faust for this very generous introduction. It's a...

Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, MTS ’84, is the first United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council. When she came to Harvard Divinity School in the early 1980s, she suspected that public policy work might be in...