Christianity

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

This past summer, through the support of a CSWR Greeley International Fellowship, MTS candidate Shira Telushkin worked as an intern at the Christian Leadership Initiative (CLI) run by the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem (SHI) and the American Jewish...

On Wednesday, February 24, Melissa Coles, an MDiv candidate at Harvard Divinity School and resident at the Center for the Study of World Religions, presented "Pilgrimage in Ireland: Walking the Paths: A Wee Taste of a Few Tales." In her presentation...

On Wednesday, February 17, Venerable Alexander Bruce, Associate Professor, Australian National University, College of Law, and Buddhist monk, delivered his lecture "The Four Noble Truths of Christianity: A Theological Thought Experiment." Below, Venerable...

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, continues his exegesis on Islam with a moving discourse on the meaning of compassion and mercy found in the Quran. You can read the second installment in...

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, writes about the importance of interreligious dialogue in today’s world. He wrote about this important topic for America.

John B. Carman, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Religion Emeritus at HDS, discusses Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959–2009: Decline and Revival in Telangana, a book he co-authored.

At this week’s World Religions Café, Axel Takács, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the study of religion, presented on a topic related to his dissertation, which is an exercise in Christian comparative theology with the Islamic religious tradition, and...

A panel chaired by Janet Gyatso , Harvard Divinity School, with Devaka Premawardhana, PhD candidate, Harvard University; Steven Hopkins, Swarthmore College; and Hent de Vries, Johns Hopkins University. Part of the Center for the Study of World Religions...

Little did a Harvard scholar who studies sacred spaces imagine that she would find the Holy Land in Florida.