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109 results for "Audio"

109 results for "Audio"

Video: Christian Slavery in the Protestant Atlantic

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Katharine Gerbner, McKnight Land-Grant Professor and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, discusses how religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Learn more Audio

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...

Video: Transcendence and Transformation, Take Two

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Charles M. Stang, Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), discussed the Center’s new initiative, “Transcendence and Transformation,” and introduced its second cohort of research associates and post-doctoral fellows: Barakatullo...

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The CSWR sponsors a variety of formal and informal academic programs designed to engage scholars and students of religious studies in what is becoming an increasingly globalized field, including lectures, film screenings, conferences and colloquia, panel...

Audio: Q&A with the Buddha

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A talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, author, teacher, Theravada monk, and abbot of the Metta Forest Monastery near San Diego. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Buddhist Community. Listen:

Audio: Fellowship of the Spirit

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The creation of a true "world community," wrote Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1960, demanded "goodwill and understanding of the basic principles which govern the lives of the different peoples." The vice president—soon to be president—of India went on...

Audio: The War on Karma

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A talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, author, teacher, Theravada monk, and abbot of the Metta Forest Monastery near San Diego. Co-sponsored by the The Harvard Buddhist Community.

Audio: The Resurgence of Imagination

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A lecture with Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer from Goa, India, with responses by Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard Divinity School, and Richard Kearney, Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy, Boston College. Part of the...

Audio: The Road of Excess

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Listen to a presentation on February 8 at the CSWR by Sébastien Tutenges, Assistant Professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Tutenges's ethnographic research on contemporary nightlife resorts, music festivals, drug use, and risk taking invokes...

Audio: An African Peacemaker

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After a long struggle for independence from Portugal, the people of Mozambique slipped into a bloody civil war that lasted 16 years, killing more than a million people and sending another 4.5 million fleeing for refuge. With the two sides at a stalemate...

Audio: Buddhist Thoughts on Intention

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A presentation by Maria Heim, Associate Professor of Religion, Amherst College. Response by Jonathan Schofer, Associate Professor of Comparative Ethics, Harvard Divinity School. This event was part of the 2008-09 "Moral Worlds and Religious Subjectivities...