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Dear Colleagues and Friends, As this academic year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting with gratitude on the extraordinary vitality, intellectual ambition, and creative breadth that have animated the Center for the Study of World Religions over the...

Greetings, friends and colleagues, As the summer slowly winds down in our quiet corner of Harvard’s campus, I am delighted to introduce you to what promises to be an extraordinary year at the Center for the Study of World Religions. The vitality and...

Dear colleagues and friends of the CSWR, I hope you have enjoyed a restful and restorative summer. We here at the CSWR are eager to share with you the exciting research and programming we have planned for the fall semester. I would like to thank my...

This event launched the CSWR and the Petrie-Flom Center's new “Psychedelics & Ethics” initiative, which brings together interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to explore ethical questions surrounding psychedelics. The series seeks to create a forum...

In this conference breakout, the following panelists participated: Rachel Harris, Author, Swimming in the Sacred and Listening to Ayahuasca ,“Swimming in the Sacred”. Michelle Lhooq, Journalist & Author, WEED: Everything You Want to Know But Are Always...

Dr. Luis Eduardo is the Director of Wasiwaska, a research center in Brazil for the study of psychointegrator plants, visionary art and consciousness. On February 16, 2024, Dr. Luna presented about ethnobotanical research at his Center, learning with and...

Dear colleagues and friends of the CSWR, It has been another busy but amazing year at the Center for the Study of World Religions! It’s impossible, in an annual letter like this, to showcase all the amazing researchers, events, and publications of the...

In four 2-hour sessions on Fridays from February 9 through March 8, 2024, Scholar-in-Residence Anne Dorothy Harley of Scripps College will lead “The Muscle of the Self: Using the Voice to Map Psyche: Special Voice Workshop” at the CSWR. In a small group...