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VIDEO: Thoreau’s Solar and Lunar Philosophy
Charles Stang and Sarah Schorr discussed Thoreau’s extraordinary encounters with, and meditations on, the sun and the moon, and the significance of those for their ongoing book collaboration, Skywater. CHARLES STANG joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2008...
Rediscovering Thoreau: A Conversation with Filmmaker Erik Ewers
"The best part about Thoreau, and I really want to stress this to people, is that he's not telling you to go live in the woods in nature. He's not telling you to do his experiment. He's telling you to do your own experiment."
The New Gilgamesh Opera: Musical and Cultural Insights
Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. “Your name shall live; your deeds shall be your legacy. Your legacy: your immortality,” the goddess Ishtar says...
A Holy Liberty to Act—To Be: Mary Moody Emerson and Margaret Fuller on Self-Actualization
A chance encounter with a historic Denver house leads Noelle A. Baker to uncover an unexpected convergence between Mary Moody Emerson and Margaret Fuller's Transcendentalism and the history of transgender community formation.
A Medium at Harvard
Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Photos of the séance medium Mina Crandon (1888–1941), known publicly as Margery, are among the most shocking images...
