Judaism

In this year’s List Lecture, Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) examined how Jews, Arabs, and Christians engaged the promises of European modernity in the nineteenth century. Focusing on parallel moments of optimism and eventual disillusionment, the...

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...

On February 25, Vivian Liska, Professor of German literature and director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, delivered the annual List Lecture in Jewish Studies at the CSWR. The Jew as archetypal migrant is a...

This past summer, through the support of a CSWR Greeley International Fellowship, MTS candidate Shira Telushkin worked as an intern at the Christian Leadership Initiative (CLI) run by the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem (SHI) and the American Jewish...

On March 4-5, the Center hosted a small workshop, "Sacramental Presences: Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Daoist Perspectives." For two days we took up today's turn in comparative studies to ritual and liturgical practice as an important site for new...

On Thursday, October 1, Steven Kepnes, director of the Chapel House and chair of the Department of Religion at Colgate University, will deliver the Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR)...

Professor Alexander Samely (University of Manchester) discusses new tools in analyzing ancient Jewish texts, including a database of comparative profiles of ancient Jewish texts.

Little did a Harvard scholar who studies sacred spaces imagine that she would find the Holy Land in Florida.

Amy-Jill Levine delivered this year's Comparative Theology Lecture. Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt...

On April 4, Louis Newman delivered this year's Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies and director of Judaic...