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The following post from Russell C. Powell, CSWR Research Affiliate, is part of an ongoing series from affiliates of the Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative. Turn or log on to any news channel or website today and political pundits will tell you all...

Sri Sabhapati Swami, a nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Tamil yogin named Sri Sabhapati Swami (Śrī Sabhāpati Svāmī, Capāpati Cuvāmikaḷ, ca. 1828–1923/4), had a significant impact on the development of modern yoga as well as modern occultism yet...

In working to advance its mission to “promote the study of the world’s religions in their classical and contemporary forms,” the Center for the Study of World Religions(CSWR) focuses its efforts along five themes, one of them being, “poetry, philosophy...

A discussion with Jocelyne Cesari, HDS T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, on her recent publication, We God's People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations. David F. Holland (HDS) and...

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, HDS Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity, discusses her recent publication, Congress of Wo/men: Religion, Gender, and Kyriarchal Power. Listen

Ousmane Kane, the HDS Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society and professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will be speaking on his new book Beyond Timbuktu: An...

On Monday, March 27, HDS Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity Elisabeth Schússler Fiorenza will discuss her recent book, Congress of Wo/men: Religion, Gender, and Kyriarchal Power. Below, Schüssler Fiorenza spoke about her work at the intersection of...

September is once again upon us, and after a long hot and dry summer here in Cambridge, we are ready – or almost ready - for the new academic year. 2016 is a year in which religion remains much in the news, for both good and bad reasons. Climate change...

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...