Politics and Religion

While at HDS, Casey found the resources to think deeply about lived religion and civil society Shaun Casey, MDiv '83, ThD '98, sat with a local imam in a café in Sub-Saharan Africa. A careless word or gesture could cause offense and derail the important...

Professor Jocelyne Cesari discusses her new book, The Awakening of Muslim Democracy, with two respondents. Read Q&A with Jocelyne Cesari

The California State GOP overwhelmingly voted on March 1 to recognize the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), a conservative group that supports gay and lesbian rights. The move was seen as a sea change for a party whose platform still officially opposes...

With the presidential election looming on February 14, Nigeria is at a crossroads, writes Professor Jacob Olupona.

Shaun Casey, MDiv '83, ThD '98, sat with a local imam in a café in Sub-Saharan Africa. A careless word or gesture could cause offense and derail the important cross-cultural meeting. The conversation stalled, the coffee cooled, and Casey's curiosity got...

Speaking to a capacity crowd inside Harvard's Memorial Church on November 19, former President Jimmy Carter enlightened those in attendance to the driving factors behind his latest book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. During his...

Calling abuse and violence toward women and girls the most horrendous human rights issue on Earth, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter charged the hundreds who came to hear him talk at Harvard to stop the harm being done to half of the world's population...

In the lead-up to the midterm elections, some pundits predicted success for the Democrats based on the decline of white mainline evangelicals, a critical segment of Republican voters for more than three decades. When the dust cleared on Tuesday night...

If a link exists between business, science, and religion, William A. Nitze, AB '64, JD '69, just may have found it. Nitze, who served as the Environmental Protection Agency's assistant administrator for international activities under the Clinton...

It is often said that history's most distinguished entertainers were "born in the theater," and that world-class athletes like Mickey Mantle and Tiger Woods grew up with bat or club in hand. For Cheryl J. Sanders, MDiv '80, ThD '85, Professor of Christian...