Religion and culture

Listen to the full conversation on YouTube or Spotify. For a related discussion, watch the recording of Mark Vernon’s conversation with Professor Charles Stang at “William Blake and the Power of Imagination,” a recent event hosted by Wonderstruck and the...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. In 2022, a previously unknown European-style manuscript came to light at an auction held in Bogotá, Colombia: “Don...

By John Kaag, Guest Contributor. Edited by Russell C. Powell November in Concord, Massachusetts, is a special kind of madness. I live three miles from the Old Manse, and on a crisp Saturday morning, the tour buses start rolling down Monument Street before...

News story and photos by Jeffrey Blackwell A mystical poem recounting the tale of a Parthian prince sent to Egypt by his parents to recover a sacred pearl from the clutches of a monstrous serpent is the first in a series of important visionary and...

By Lawrence Buell , Guest Contributor. Edited by Russell Powell I discovered Transcendentalism as a discontented adolescent, when struggling to countervail an overdose of internalized dutifulness that included redundant Bible-based Sunday school classes...

As part of the Psychedelics and the Future of Religion series, the Center for the Study of World Religions presented an interview with author Mike Jay about his two most recent books, Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, and Mescaline: A...

Professor Charles Stang, CSWR Director delivered a lecture entitled, “Apopha sis and Angelology: Henry Corbin’s Neoplatonism” at the 2023 Eranos conference in Switzerland. “This is not merely a minor chapter in the history of ideas, but rather a case...

Mark D. Jordan discusses his recent publication, Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault. Respondents include James Bernauer, S.J., of Boston College, Amy Hollywood and Mayra Rivera Rivera, both of Harvard Divinity School.

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...