Education. AB, Harvard College; MA, PhD, Harvard University; Profile. Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, began teaching at Harvard in 1988, having previously taught at the ...

The Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI) at Harvard Divinity School—the first of its kind at a divinity school within a research university in the United States—trains future Buddhist religious ...

Education. BA, Harvard University PhD, Yale University Profile. Catherine Brekus is Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School, Chair of the Committee on ...

B. Beltane: The final fertility festival, celebrating the Earth’s fecundity and anticipating the power of the sun and the Earth in summer.(Wicca/Paganism) Birth of the Bab: The anniversary of the ...

Charles Stang, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Early Christian Thought, delivered the first Price Lecture of 2019 at Trinity Church Boston on March 10, 2019..

On December 6, 2022, the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life invited the entire HDS community to Seasons of Light. As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, this beloved ...

This year, HDS is hosting two Hindu Swamis, Swami Chidekananda of the Ramakrishna Order, and Swami Sachidananda of the Arsha Vidya Gurukul. Both Swamis quickly became cherished members of our ...

On leave. Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Education. BS ChE, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez; MTS, PhD, Drew University; Profile. Mayra Rivera is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx ...

Watch Tibetan Buddhist master H.E. Ling Rinpoche's teachings on embodying the power of compassion and wisdom to uproot discrimination and bigotry.

Ordaining for ministry in Buddhism is somewhat distinct from the ordination track of various other religions and their denominations. For one thing, because Buddhism includes many different traditions ...

On September 29, 2022, Gerald J. Steinacher, James A. Rawley Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who specializes in the history of the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath, ...

“I came to religious life with the question of what was meaningful about existence,” said Brahmacharini Durga, a monastic in ...