As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole. Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divi...
Dec 06, 2022•5 min
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole. Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divi...
Dec 06, 2022•2 min
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole. Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divi...
Dec 06, 2022•5 min
As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole. Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divi...
Dec 06, 2022•4 min
Christianity in Iraq is on the brink of erasure. Once home to some of the world’s oldest Christian sites and communities, Iraq and the greater Levant has witnessed an onslaught of instability and violence targeting minority religions. Despite these challenges, leaders of Iraq’s Christian community have risen to become a voice for persecuted religious groups across the region. Archbishop Bashar Warda is a face of these efforts, and his remarks will draw upon both his experience in Iraq, and of th...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 9 min
This lecture, given by Visiting Associate Professor of African American Religions and Women's Studies in Religion Program 2022-23 Research Associate Kinitra D. Brooks, has to do with conjure feminism and Dona Kimpa Vita. This event took place on November 17, 2022 Learn more: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/home Full transcript: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/5/video-thou-shalt-not-suffer-witch-live
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 6 min
The 2022 Ministry Colloquium at HDS, "Spirituality, Mental Health, and Science," featured a talk from Dr. Lisa Miller, author of The Awakened Brain and Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. In this lecture she explored the relationship between spirituality and physical well being. This event took place on November 9, 2022 Learn more: hds.harvard.edu Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/2/video-spirituality-mental-health-and-science
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Professor Terrence L. Johnson facilitated a conversation with Professor Anthony Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, who is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Divinity School for the academic year 2022-23, focused on Professor Pinn’s most recent book, The Interplay of Things. In The Interplay of Things, Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and other things. Rather th...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Join Dr. David Yaden and Dr. Michael Ferguson, world experts in the sciences of psychedelics and spirituality, as they discuss Dr. Yaden's new book, "The Varieties of Spiritual Experience." Inspired by the history, philosophy, and methodology of William James's classic text "The Varieties of Religious Experience," this new volume is a twenty-first-century response to timeless questions about humankind's spiritual nature. "The Varieties of Spiritual Experience" introduces a rich array of original...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Francis X. Clooney, S. J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, talks about his journey from New York City to Kathmandu, "thinking big" in his teaching and courses, and why HDS is an exciting place for comparative theology and Hindu studies. Faculty Focus is a special podcast series from Harvard Divinity School where we speak with HDS professors about their courses and research interests. Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/11/21/faculty-focus-cross...
Nov 21, 2022•25 min
Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani discusses affect theater with her guests Prof. Cristiana Giordano (UC Davis) and Prof. Greg Pierotti (University of Arizona), and how it can transform academic research. They talk about the role of affects, emotions, and collaborative practices in academic and non-academic processes of meaning-making. This event occured on November 2, 2022 Learn more: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/home Full transcript: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/12/30/video-affect-theater-and-c...
Nov 18, 2022•57 min
This fall, Harvard Divinity School celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI). In honor of this anniversary, the community engaged in discussions of Buddhist ministry in the context of HDS. In this video, Dr. Monica Sanford closes the celebration by asking Janet Gyatso what she wants to see in the future for the BMI. This event took place on October 27, 2022 Learn more: hds.harvard.edu Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/16/video-bmi-10th-anniversa...
Nov 17, 2022•6 min
This fall, Harvard Divinity School celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI). In honor of this anniversary, the community engaged in discussions of Buddhist ministry in the context of HDS. This event took place on October 27, 2022 Learn more: hds.harvard.edu Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/12/audio-bmi-10th-anniversary-celebration-ven-priya-rakkhit-sraman
Nov 17, 2022•15 min
This fall, Harvard Divinity School celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI). In honor of this anniversary, the community engaged in discussions of Buddhist ministry in the context of HDS. This event took place on October 27, 2022 Learn more: hds.harvard.edu Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/13/audio-bmi-10th-anniversary-celebration-bhante-kusala
Nov 17, 2022•13 min
This fall, Harvard Divinity School celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI). In honor of this anniversary, the community engaged in discussions of Buddhist ministry in the context of HDS. This event took place on October 27, 2022 Learn more: hds.harvard.edu Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/16/audio-bmi-10th-anniversary-maria-azhunova
Nov 17, 2022•12 min
This fall, Harvard Divinity School celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI). In honor of this anniversary, the community engaged in discussions of Buddhist ministry in the context of HDS. In this discussion, Dr. Monica Sanford and Dr. Charles Hallisey dialogue about the nature and practice of Buddhist ministry. This event took place on October 27, 2022 Learn more: hds.harvard.edu Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/11/video-buddhist-ministry-init...
Nov 17, 2022•32 min
This fall, Harvard Divinity School celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI). In honor of this anniversary, the community engaged in discussions of Buddhist ministry in the context of HDS. This event took place on October 27, 2022 Learn more: hds.harvard.edu Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/16/audio-bmi-10th-anniversary-nancy-chu
Nov 17, 2022•7 min
This fall, Harvard Divinity School celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI). In honor of this anniversary, the community engaged in discussions of Buddhist ministry in the context of HDS. This event took place on October 27, 2022 Learn more: hds.harvard.edu Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/1/13/audio-bmi-10th-anniversary-harrison-blum
Nov 17, 2022•13 min
Cynthia Wilson, (RPL Native and Indigenous Rights Fellow) and Angelo Baca (Cultural Resources Coordinator for Utah Diné Bikéyah) speak from their experience as Indigenous community organizers helping to secure the protection of Bears Ears National Monument. Located in southeast Utah, Bears Ears was subjected to Proclamation 9681 by President Trump in 2017 to reduce protected lands by more than 1.1 million acres. Following an Indigenous-led movement to protect Bears Ears, a reparative proclamatio...
Nov 08, 2022•56 min
Mayra Rivera, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies, talks about coloniality and race, environmental catastrophe, and transforming the way we see the world. Faculty Focus is a special new podcast series from Harvard Divinity School, where we speak with HDS professors about their courses and research interests. Full episode transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/11/04/faculty-focus-mayra-rivera Learn more about HDS: hds.harvard.edu/ Music track: "Old Dog New Tricks"; Ex...
Nov 07, 2022•23 min
Illuminations is a new limited series from Ministry of Ideas that reveals the untold friendship of religion and science. Through interviews and stories drawn from a range of cultures, faiths, and eras, this series reveals the unknown and unexpected histories of how religion and science have been entangled across time. We hear why the Dalai Lama loves quantum mechanics; why the Mormon faith inspires a search for extraterrestrial life; why the Scientific Revolution was catalyzed by a religious que...
Nov 05, 2022•1 hr 31 min
When a sacred lake bursts into toxic flames, and the temple at its shore is charred, the resident goddess flees. Where can She go? Highlighting the paradox between Hinduism’s view of water as female, sacred and sentient, and the endemic pollution of water resources and climate- driven drought in contemporary India, this ethnographic and archival project considers the existential ethics at stake in apocalyptic climate change. If water is life, as our popular understanding suggests, we ask, what i...
Nov 05, 2022•1 hr 22 min
This conversation with religious studies scholar and Black and biracial educator Marcelitte Failla (Emory University)” our Research Associate Giovanna Parmigiani, the host of the series, discusses the practice of Tarot reading, Black Witches, Divination, Resilience, and the meanings, limitations, and possibilities of being a “scholar practitioner.” Marcelitte Failla is a Black and biracial educator and scholar of African-heritage religions. Through a Black feminist lens, her work explores how re...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr
This lecture was part of the 60th anniversary symposium for God is Red at Harvard Divinity School. This lecture series discusses how Vine Deloria Jr.'s landmark text speaks to the field of religious studies, Native American studies, theology, and environmental studies in the twenty-first century. In this lecture Dr. Suzan Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee) from the the Morning Star Institute discusses the impact of Deloria's work on studies of Native American rights and Native American Rel...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 43 min
This lecture was part of the 60th anniversary symposium for God is Red at Harvard Divinity School. This lecture series discusses how Vine Deloria Jr.'s landmark text speaks to the field of religious studies, Native American studies, theology, and environmental studies in the twenty-first century. In this lecture Dr. Dan Wildcat (Yuchi/Muscogee) from Haskell Indian Nations University discusses the impact of Deloria's work in the present and in future scholarship. This event took place on Friday, ...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 55 min
Repeated elections in Israel reveal the intensification of rhetoric around "transfer" and the normalization of the settlement project in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. At the same time, recent reports by a host of respected human rights organizations brought into question the limits and blinders of the construct of "Jewish democracy." A panel of public intellectuals examined the gradual strengthening of Jewish exclusionary political parties, the influences of Jewish and Christian American...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 31 min
This lecture was part of the 60th anniversary symposium for God is Red at Harvard Divinity School. This lecture series discusses how Vine Deloria Jr.'s landmark text speaks to the field of religious studies, Native American studies, theology, and environmental studies in the twenty-first century. In this lecture Dr. Susan Hill (Mohawk) from the University of Toronto discusses the impact of Deloria's work on studies of religion, land, and the environment . This event took place on Friday, October...
Oct 22, 2022•1 hr 24 min
This lecture was part of the 60th anniversary symposium for God is Red at Harvard Divinity School. This lecture series discusses how Vine Deloria Jr.'s landmark text speaks to the field of religious studies, Native American studies, theology, and environmental studies in the twenty-first century. In this lecture Dr. Michael McNally from the Carleton College discusses the impact of Deloria's work on religious studies. This event took place on Friday, October 7, 2022 Learn more: https://wsrp.hds.h...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 36 min
This lecture was part of the 60th anniversary symposium for God is Red at Harvard Divinity School. This lecture series discusses how Vine Deloria Jr.'s landmark text speaks to the field of religious studies, Native American studies, theology, and environmental studies in the twenty-first century. In this lecture Dr. Robert Warrior (Osage) from the University of Kansas discusses the impact of Deloria's work on theology. This event took place on Friday, October 7, 2022 Learn more: https://hds.harv...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Lecture by Gerald J. Steinacher, James A. Rawley Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who specializes in the history of the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath. Introduction of the speaker by Professor Kevin J. Madigan, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Faculty Dean, Eliot House, Harvard College. This event took place on September 29, 2022 Learn more: https://hds.harvard.edu/ Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/11/02/video-pope-against-nuremberg-nazi-...
Oct 18, 2022•51 min
