Religious Studies

"For the way in which an educational institution thinks about religious groups and their distinctive worldviews touches upon the deeper issue of the nature and goals of education in general and upon the mission of individual educational institutions in...

Former directors, residents, and students of the Center for the Study of World Religions discuss the different eras of the Center’s history of studying religion.

In her Harvard Divinity School Convocation address, HDS Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura S. Nasrallah recalled her efforts studying a Greek mosaic and her pondering the sometimes obscurity of her work. "I wondered: Was I a...

Under a tent on the HDS Campus Green, behind Andover Hall, members of the HDS community gathered on August 29, 2013, to welcome a new academic year. Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies, delivered the ceremony's...

Dean William A. Graham delivered the keynote address at the 2012 HDS Leadership Day, held on March 30. Leadership Day is a celebration for Harvard Divinity School leadership-level supporters and volunteers, including members of the Dean's, Leadership, and...

HDS opened its 198th academic year on Thursday, August 29, 2013, with its annual Convocation activities. Featured in the video above are welcome remarks by HDS Dean David N. Hempton, an introduction to the speaker by Rev. Jonathan Walton, musical...

As part of the Divinity School's Leadership Day, held April 5, Harvard President Drew Faust and HDS Dean David Hempton sat down to discuss the role of the study of religion and spiritual life in the 21st century—at Harvard and beyond. The talk was...

The annual William James Lecture on Religious Experience was presented on April 25, 2013, by Jeremy Carrette, Professor of Religion and Culture at the University of Kent. The endowed lecture was introduced by Dean David Hempton and by David Lamberth...

HDS professor Stephanie Paulsell spans centuries, from Bible to Woolf, in annual Convocation address.

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton has been awarded the Albert C. Outler Prize by the American Society of Church History for his recent book, The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century (I.B. Tauris, 2011). The award is presented to the author of...