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Center for the Study of World Religions Releases Report on Psychedelic Facilitation Training

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The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School has released “Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training in the US: A Landscape Analysis,” an assessment of the current state of psychedelic facilitation training programs across the...

Manufacturing the Entheogenic Underground

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Ethnographic research suggests that people across the United States are increasingly gathering to commune with their creators, to interact with their ancestors, to enter the spirit world, to gain supernatural insights, and to engage in what they otherwise...

Video: Enheduanna: Voicing the Feminine Divine Presentation and Musical Performance

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On December 12, 2023, the CSWR hosted a special evening celebrating the life and writings of Enheduana, also En-hedu-Ana; (c. twenty-third century B.C.E.) who is the first named author in human history. Enheduana, an Akkadian princess and daughter of King...

Gnoseologies and Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani

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The Center’s Gnoseologies Series led by Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani has played a prominent role in the Transcendence and Transformation (T&T) Initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR). Launched in September 2021, the T&T initiative...

Video: The Islamic Conception of Arabness, A New Reading of the Qur’ānic Discourse on the a‘rāb

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Center for the Study of World Religions hosted a talk by Raashid Goyal, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen, Germany. In his talk, Goyal proposes that the term a‘rāb signified “Arabs” and not “nomads,” and that the former entity...

Plant Consciousness Reading Group: A Conversation with Co-founders Rachael Petersen and Natalia Schwien

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Over the years, the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) has encouraged student-led reading groups that center around a topic, author, or text. Groups meet twice monthly throughout the academic year. Reading groups have included, The Divine...

Video: "The Call of the Ancient: Psychedelic Pasts and Futures", Professor Charles Stang

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Professor Charles Stang, CSWR Director, delivered a lecture entitled, “The Call of the Ancient: Psychedelic Pasts and Futures ” at the "Archives of the Impossible" Conference at Rice University on May 13, 2023. What is at stake in our knowing whether and...

The Peripheries Poetry Series and Sherah Bloor at the Center for the Study of World Religions

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In working to advance its mission to “promote the study of the world’s religions in their classical and contemporary forms,” the Center for the Study of World Religions(CSWR) focuses its efforts along five themes, one of them being, “poetry, philosophy...

Video: Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?

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On April 27, 2023, The Center for the Study of World Religions co-hosted this discussion with panelists Sam S. B. Shonkoff, Taube Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. Melila Hellner-Eshed, professor of Jewish...

Video: Eranos Conference 2023, "Ideas and Influences on Eros"

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Professor Charles Stang, CSWR Director delivered a lecture entitled, “Apopha sis and Angelology: Henry Corbin’s Neoplatonism” at the 2023 Eranos conference in Switzerland. “This is not merely a minor chapter in the history of ideas, but rather a case...