What was religious life like in America in 1776? In this episode of the Harvard Religion Beat podcast, Professor Catherine ...

In many ways, Swami Chidekananda grew up as an “all-American kid.” Raised in Los Angeles, California, his father was a UCLA microbiology professor for more than 40 years, and Chidekananda made the all ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Divinity Explorations program (DivEx) gives college undergraduates and recent graduates a three-day preview into life at HDS. In this blog post, Candice Mulinda, MTS ’27, shares how DivEx shaped ...

In this episode, we’re going to trace these historical lines from here at Marsh Chapel in 1962 to the present moment of psychedelic spirituality, and to see what role psychedelics might play in the ...

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 ...

Video: The Pope Against Nuremberg: Nazi War Crime Trials, the Vatican, and the Question of Postwar Justice ...

SPEAKER 1: Harvard Divinity School. SPEAKER 2: Stendahl Symposium 2024. New horizons, new resistance. April 19, 2024. SAMIRAH JAIGIRDAR: This is an annual tradition at HDS, the Stendahl Symposium ...

The following opinion piece was written by Catherine A. Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America. On June 1, 2020, a group of peaceful protesters in Washington, D.C. was ...

[MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER 1: Harvard Divinity School. SPEAKER 2: Christian Nationalism in Global Perspective, February 27, 2025. DAVID: OK, everybody. Welcome, and thanks for coming. So the run of show ...

This summer, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued two major decisions with religion at the center of the cases. In Groff v. DeJoy, the court bolstered protections for workers asking ...