Religious History

How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease? Rooted in the prophet’s experiences with medicine and healing, Muslim pietistic literature developed cosmologies in which physical suffering and medical interventions interacted with religious...

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...

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, writes about the climate of ignorance surrounding Islam in today's politics, and the need for all of us to learn more of this religious tradition. He wrote...

On March 26, the Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS sponsored a discussion on The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: The I.B. Tauris History of the Christian Church, a recent publication by HDS professor David N. Hempton. Discussants of...