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Harvard Divinity School

Expand your understanding of the ways religion shapes the world with lectures, interviews, and reflections from Harvard Divinity School.

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Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Creation of a Media Phenomenon

Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Creation of a Media Phenomenon

Martin Luther did more than just serve as a catalyst for the Reformation. By nailing his 95 theses to the door of a Witt... Read more

28 Mar 2016

1hr 35mins

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Writing and the Art of Attention

Writing and the Art of Attention

Religious traditions insist on the importance of cultivating our faculty of attention, whether it be attention to oursel... Read more

13 Sep 2018

1hr 25mins

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Reformation and Racial Taxonomies: An Underexplored Narrative of Modernity

Reformation and Racial Taxonomies: An Underexplored Narrative of Modernity

This year's Dudleian Lecture is presented by Dr. Paul C.H. Lim, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and A... Read more

27 Sep 2017

1hr 37mins

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Religion and Nonviolence: Past and Present with Cornel West and Sasha Dehghani

Religion and Nonviolence: Past and Present with Cornel West and Sasha Dehghani

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West and Center for the Study of World Religions Visiting Scho... Read more

5 May 2017

55mins

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Radically Happy: Meditation and Mindfulness Based in Ancient Wisdom

Radically Happy: Meditation and Mindfulness Based in Ancient Wisdom

Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon are authors of the recently released book Radically Happy: A User’s Guide to the Min... Read more

13 Nov 2018

1hr 8mins

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The Case Against Buddhism: A Conversation between Glenn Wallis and Charles Hallisey

The Case Against Buddhism: A Conversation between Glenn Wallis and Charles Hallisey

Presented as a rational, scientific, and practical religion, modern Buddhism appears to have all the answers. Even the s... Read more

10 Mar 2019

1hr 9mins

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Whatever Happened to Secularization? A Talk by Harvey Cox

Whatever Happened to Secularization? A Talk by Harvey Cox

Harvard Divinity School Professor Harvey Cox delivers the talk, "Whatever Happened to Secularization?" The talk took pla... Read more

5 May 2017

43mins

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The Reformation Era and the Unintended Secularization of Western Society

The Reformation Era and the Unintended Secularization of Western Society

Delivered on September 7, 2017, by Brad S. Gregory, Professor of History and Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair at the ... Read more

11 Sep 2017

1hr 27mins

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On Exile and Elsewhere: André Aciman in Conversation with Benjamin Balint

On Exile and Elsewhere: André Aciman in Conversation with Benjamin Balint

On October 3, 2018, André Aciman, author of "Call Me by Your Name," and writer Benjamin Balint will discuss themes of ex... Read more

3 Oct 2018

1hr 23mins

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The Liturgy of Home: Terry Tempest Williams

The Liturgy of Home: Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams, the 2017–18 Writer-in-Residence at Harvard Divinity School, delivers the 2018 Ingersoll Lecture.... Read more

11 Apr 2018

1hr 27mins

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Veiled Women Unveiling God: Understanding the Qur’an Through Its Women Characters

Veiled Women Unveiling God: Understanding the Qur’an Through Its Women Characters

S. Zahra Moballegh, 2018-19 WSRP Visiting Associate Professor, delivers the lecture "Veiled Women Unveiling God: Underst... Read more

5 Dec 2018

1hr 4mins

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The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls

The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls

How is the comparative scholarship on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam possible? What are its presuppositions, and what ... Read more

25 Sep 2018

1hr 22mins

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Religion Matters: HDS at Harvard University

Religion Matters: HDS at Harvard University

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton discusses the role of HDS at Harvard, as well as the role of religion and ... Read more

29 Apr 2017

1hr 16mins

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History, Movement, and the Spread of Islamic Scholarship

History, Movement, and the Spread of Islamic Scholarship

Zachary Wright, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University QatarVisionary Knowledge: Encounters with the Pr... Read more

16 Mar 2017

1hr 36mins

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Bureaucratic Islam and the Romance Industry in Southeast Asia

Bureaucratic Islam and the Romance Industry in Southeast Asia

Alicia Izharuddin (University of Malaya), Visiting Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islam, gives a lecture entitle... Read more

30 Oct 2019

1hr 18mins

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Ardencies: St. Hildegard's Blazing Plants

Ardencies: St. Hildegard's Blazing Plants

Marder formulates the paradox of “excessive heat” that, on the one hand, signals the ardency of faith and the love of Go... Read more

25 Sep 2019

39mins

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All the Time in the World: An Artist’s Awakening with Ayahuasca

All the Time in the World: An Artist’s Awakening with Ayahuasca

Artist and author Rachel Sussman shares her physical, intellectual, and spiritual journey around the world and through t... Read more

13 Nov 2019

52mins

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Author Discussion: Religion Around Virginia Woolf

Author Discussion: Religion Around Virginia Woolf

Stephanie Paulsell, HDS Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies and Interim Pusey Ministe... Read more

9 Dec 2019

1hr 9mins

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"To Buy a Pair of Shoes," by Kwame Dawes

"To Buy a Pair of Shoes," by Kwame Dawes

Listen to Kwame Dawes read "To Buy a Pair of Shoes" for the last day of our #NationalPoetryMonth 2017 celebration. Origi... Read more

24 Apr 2017

3mins

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Sound Education Conference 2018 Panel 1: Audience Growth

Sound Education Conference 2018 Panel 1: Audience Growth

Sound Education was a 3-day event at Harvard University for educational and academic podcasters and radio hosts, and the... Read more

2 Dec 2018

1hr 20mins

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