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As part of the CSWR Poetry Series, the Center hosted award-winning poet, Don Revell for the Fall 2023 Poetry Symposium, Almost a Prayer: The Afterlife of Enchantment. The symposium and Revell were introduced by literary critic, poet, and professor of...

Mark D. Jordan discusses his recent publication, Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault. Respondents include James Bernauer, S.J., of Boston College, Amy Hollywood and Mayra Rivera Rivera, both of Harvard Divinity School.

John H. Berthrong, Associate Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston University, delivered this lecture as part of the Center's Comparative Theology Lecture Series. David Mozina, Professor at Boston College in the Theology Department, served as a...

On September 11, 2013 the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted a panel titled "Studying Religion in the Post-9/11 World: The Importance of Taking Religion Seriously from a Humanities Perspective in Troubled Times." Here are talks by...

Reverend Thomas Hathaway from The Outdoor Church in Cambridge, Mass., Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and MDiv student Zachary Kerzee speak about the issue of homelessness in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and their efforts...

Ronit Irshai, Assistant Professor at Bar Ilan University, visited HDS on December 11, 2013. In a talk jointly sponsored by the Center for Studies in World Religion and the Women's Studies in Religion Program, Professor Irshai spoke about fertility and...

On November 18, 2013, Dr. Hema Goonatilake was a featured guest speaker at the Center for the Study of World Religions. Dr. Goonatilake, Honorary Secretary, The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, spoke about historical relations between Sri Lanka and...

On February 19, 2014, the Center for the Study of World Religions sponsored a panel discussion about faith-based community organizing in different faith traditions. The speakers were Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School; Yusufi Vali...

On February 25, 2014, the CSWR sponsored this discussion on altruism in China. The speakers were: Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Chair, Department of East Asian Languages & Culture at the University of California, Berkeley; Michael Puitt, Acting Director, The...

On March 3, 2014, Christine Hayes, Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University, was a featured speaker at the Center for the Study of World Religions.