Faculty Book

Giovanni Bazzana, HDS Professor of New Testament, discussed his recent book, "Having the Spirit of Christ: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Early Christ Groups," on October 7, 2020. Angela Kim Harkins (Boston College) and William Arnal (University of...

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...

On Tuesday, February 23, Giovanni Bazzana, Associate Professor of New Testament at HDS, discussed his recent book Kingdom of Bureaucracy: The Political Theology of Village Scribes in the Sayings Gospel Q. Shaye J.D. Cohen, Littauer Professor of Hebrew...

On Monday, November 16, Matthew Potts, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at HDS, discussed his recent book, Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories, at the Center for the Study of World Religions...

The last of our five faculty book events of the semester took place on Monday, April 20 at 5:15 in the Sperry Room at Harvard Divinity School. This event highlighted His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence (Stanford...

The third of the four faculty book events of the semester took place on Tuesday, April 14, at 5:15PM, in the Center’s Common Room. This time, we discussed Medieval Christianity: A New History (Yale University Press 2015), by Professor Kevin J. Madigan...

Professor Jocelyne Cesari discussed her new book, The Awakening of Muslim Democracy, with two respondents.

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...