Religious Studies

In this retrospective video, part of the Center’s celebration of the HDS bicentennial year, five professors and students with long relationships to the Center for the Study of World Religions discuss different eras in the Center’s history of studying...

As part of the Innings & Outings series sponsored by the HDS Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, Naohito Miura (MDiv), Ram Singh (MTS), and Martha Meilleur (MDiv) shared their respective experiences as members of the Johrei, Sikh, and Spiritualist...

A panel chaired by Jane I. Smith, Harvard Divinity School, with Thomas Lewis, Brown University; Marla Frederick, Harvard University; and Luis Girón-Negrón, Harvard University. Part of the CSWR 50th Anniversary Symposium. This was one of three panels on...

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...

This lecture by Leigh Schmidt, Charles Warren Professor of History of Religion in America, Harvard Divinity School, was part of the CSWR 50th Anniversary Symposium. An introduction was given by Ann D. Braude, Harvard Divinity School.

Charles Carstens, a Ph.D. student in Buddhist studies, spoke at CSWR on Sept. 11 as part of the panel “Studying Religion in the Post-9/11 World: The Importance of Taking Religion Seriously from a Humanities Perspective in Troubled Times.”

This lecture, which was the second event as part of CSWR Junior Fellow Konchok Tsering's series, Studying Religions in the Minority, was delivered by Samten G. Karmay, former president of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.