Barbara Zimbalist, 2018–19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Visionary Translation, Divine Rhetoric, and Verbal Devotion in England, France, and the Low Countries."
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 obligations and spiritual health.... Read more about Video: Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam
Katharine Gerbner, McKnight Land-Grant Professor and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, discusses how religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world.
This event is part of a larger collaboration between the Planetary Health Alliance and the Harvard Divinity School called “The Constellation Project,” led by Dr. Sam Myers and Terry Tempest Williams, which brings together science, faith, arts, and indigenous communities to explore larger questions about our place in the world and imagine a better future.... Read more about Video: Taproot - Stories of Nature & Restoration
By bringing together scholars from across Harvard, this panel discussed the importance of a critical, nuanced, and interdisciplinary understanding of refugee, asylum, and immigrant issues, while highlighting activist efforts.... Read more about Video: Building Bridges
The fall 2018 Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture was delivered by Alfredo López Austin, Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Anthropological Research, at Mexico’s National Autonomous University on October 9.
Cornelia Holden, MDiv ’03 shares her experiences as a spiritual innovator and founder of Mindful Warrior and the Core Leadership California at Ministry Colloquium.... Read more about Video: Innovative Ministry
Anglican church leaders from sub-Saharan Africa discuss the role of faith and how religious leaders and communities are working to end malaria for good.... Read more about Video: Rethinking Malaria
Anna Sun, 2018–19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China."