The Harvard Divinity School community and guests gathered on November 12 for a reception and screening of the 2024 film ...

Lauren Tassone, MTS ’24, has felt drawn to religion since childhood. Growing up Catholic and attending Catholic schools, ...

Charles Stang joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2008. In 2017, he became the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS.

The origins of Harvard Divinity School and of the study of theology at Harvard can be traced back to the very beginning of Harvard College, when an initial fund of 400 pounds from the General Court of ...

Diana Eck's academic work has a dual focus—India and America. Her work on India focuses on popular religion, especially temples and places of pilgrimage, called tirthas. Her books include Banaras: ...

Harvard Divinity School is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity As Emerson Senior Lecturer, Professor McKanan is deeply involved in the formation of Unitarian Universalist ministers ...

This calendar is not an exhaustive list either of religious traditions or of the holidays observed in those traditions. If we have not included a religious tradition or major religious holiday of ...

Each year, the Alumni/Alumnae Council recognizes graduates whose excellence in life, work, and service pays homage to the mission and values of the Harvard Divinity School. The award honors the late ...

Professors Francis X. Clooney, S.J., and Swayam Bagaria have more in common than their areas of expertise may suggest. One commonality in both their vastly different stories is that neither faculty ...

The Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) is pleased to announce that the nominations are officially being accepted for the 2025 Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honors!