Interfaith

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Certain Bible quotations speak forcefully against “pagans” and “witches,” sometimes even justifying their being...

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.

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, writes about the 50 th anniversary of "Nostra Aetate, " "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian religions. " He wrote about this...

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, attended an interfaith service at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum with Pope Francis and leaders from various other religious traditions on Friday...

Monday, August 31, was an auspicious day at Harvard Divinity School. It was not only our Convocation, the formal opening of the new academic year, but also, at the start of 2015-16, a step closer to the actual bicentennial of the School. It was also an...

The first annual Dana McLean Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice was presented by Tomas Halik, theologian, priest, and Professor of Sociology at Charles University in Prague. The Greeley Lecture Endowment Fund is intended to "support an annual...

This event, cosponsored by CSWR and the Pluralism Project, featured discussion of the book My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation. Presenters include two of the book's editors, Jennifer Peace (Assistant...

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...

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...

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...