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20 results for "Jordan"

20 results for "Jordan"

Reflections of an Interfaith Movement in Jordan

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In the summer of 2012, I experienced an interfaith movement unlike anything I had observed elsewhere, in which a discourse between Christianity and Islam is both living and politically significant on local and global scales.The work of the Very Reverend...

Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault

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One of the distinctive pleasures of being Director of the Center is to be able to host events in which we, the community of Harvard Divinity School, take time to attend to each other’s study, teaching, research, and writing. Among such moments, one of my...

Video: Words Surviving Siege and War: Poems from Gaza

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This event features seven poets from Gaza-Palestine who in May 2021 were working to submit their poems to Peripheries while under Israeli attacks. Five of the poets write in Arabic while two, the co-editors of the special folio in 2021, are bilingual...

Greeley International Internship

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The Greeley International Internship honors the Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, AB '31, STB '33, who believed that people of all backgrounds and faiths are deeply connected to one another and should work together for positive social change. The internship is...

Usra Ghazi: Enhancing Interfaith Understanding

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MTS candidate and CSWR junior fellow Usra Ghazi began asking questions about religious identity and interfaith understanding at a very young age. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, she was four when her family first arrived in Chicago, later to settle in Skokie...

Harvard and HDS Celebrate Interfaith Awareness Week

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Harvard University and HDS are celebrating Interfaith Awareness Week (February 4-9) with events aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue and understanding. The events coincide with and are inspired by World Interfaith Harmony Week declared by the United...

Video: Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam

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How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease? Rooted in the prophet’s experiences with medicine and healing, Muslim pietistic literature developed cosmologies in which physical suffering and medical interventions interacted with religious...

The Awakening of Muslim Democracy

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As reported a few weeks ago in a report on Mark Jordan’s Convulsing Bodies (with the video of the session here), one of the distinctive and most interesting instances of Center programming are sessions devoted to the discussion of new faculty books. These...

Residents' Coming and Goings During the Winter Break

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Most of our residents traveled during the interim between semesters, some for very long distances, others by short trips to the suburbs, or down to New York, etc. Some largely stayed home at the Center and got caught up, or a head start, on one or another...