World Religions Cafe Series

On Wednesday, February 3, Hadel Jarada, a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and resident at the Center for the Study of World Religions, presented on the central components of Avicenna's (d. 1037) philosophy. Born...

On Wednesday, December 2, Munjed M. Murad, a ThD candidate at the Harvard Divinity School, delivered the presentation, Living the Dream: Ibn al-'Arabi on Transcending and Interpreting Life. The lecture, analyzing the writings of Ibn al-'Arabi (d. 1240) in...

On Wednesday, November 14, Mariam Goshadze, a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion, delivered a presentation on the politics of religious sound in Ghana's capital, Accra. Mariam's talk covered her pre-dissertation fieldwork in Ghana...

On Wednesday, November 4, Khytie Brown, a doctoral student in the African and African-American Studies department and doctoral fellow in the Science, Religion and Culture program at Harvard, presented on the topic “Sweetness, Spirits and the Senses...

On Wednesday, October 21, Philip Balla led the weekly World Religions Café with his presentation entitled "Exploring Theravada Buddhism in Cambodia." Philip is a MDiv candidate at HDS and is a resident at the Center for the Study of World Religions and...

On Wednesday, October 14, Seth Powell, a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion, delivered a presentation on the history of yoga postures ( āsana) in pre-modern India. To put this history in context, Seth began his talk by situating the...

At this week’s World Religions Café, Jiou Park, a second year master of theological studies candidate and a CSWR resident, presented an overview of blasphemy laws in Pakistan. For her presentation, Jiou first emphasized that despite the disparate...

Krish, alias Ramakrishnan Parameshwaran, presented excerpts from his recently published position paper on the meeting points of Medicine, Chaplaincy and Theology. The abstract of the publication, titled ‘You are Here’: Locating ‘Spirituality’ on the Map...

At this week's World Religions Café, Naohito Miura, a second-year master of divinity degree candidate and CSWR resident, recounted his summer field education experience in Brazil. Building on his Café presentation in March, Naohito shared his reflections...

At this week’s World Religions Café, Axel Takács, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the study of religion, presented on a topic related to his dissertation, which is an exercise in Christian comparative theology with the Islamic religious tradition, and...