William James Lecture

The 2019 William James Lecture will be presented on May 1, 5:15 pm, by Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages, and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His talk, “ The Planet: An Emergent...

Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, delivered the annual named William James Lecture. Listen

There’s an important but underappreciated dimension in The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most well-known books by W.E.B. Du Bois. Anthony Pinn, MDiv ’89, calls it “the problem soul.” Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of...

Dr. Bill J. Leonard of Wake Forest University presented the annual William James Lecture. Leonard's research focuses on church history with particular attention to American religion, Baptist studies, and Appalachian religion. His newest book, A Sense of...

The annual William James Lecture was presented on December 5, 2011, by Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard...

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...

2014 William James lecturer T.M. Luhrmann talks about her work and the ways that members of evangelical communities worship and pray.

by Jahnabi Barooah Americans in new, charismatic evangelical churches need to work harder than Ghanaians in theologically similar settings to make God real. This is the provocative thesis that Tanya Marie Luhrmann put forward at Harvard Divinity School's...

On February 13, 2014, Tanya M. Luhrmann, Watkins Professor, Stanford University, delivered the 2014 William James Lecture, 'William James in Accra.'