HDS Courses Open to BTI Students
Projected Through 2015
Harvard Divinity School reserves the right to withdraw or modify courses as appropriate.
The following HDS course offerings are available for cross registration through the Boston Theological Institute (BTI).
Show Course Offerings for 2012-2013
Courses listed within square brackets are not offered in 2012-2013, but are expected to be offered in future years.
Abraham, Susan
[HDS 2274] |
[Christianity between Colonialism and Postcolonialism] |
The Last Things: Religious, Theological and Cultural Perspectives in Eschatology | |
Feminist Environmental Philosophy and Theology | |
[HDS 3917] |
[Feminist Cross Cultural Perspectives on Beliefs and Practices] |
Ahmed, Leila
Religion, Gender, and Politics in Transnational Perspective | |
Contemporary Muslim and Diasporic Memoirs and Autobiographies in the West | |
Contemporary Voices in Western Islam |
Austin, Dorothy A.
Clinical Case Studies in Psychology and Religion |
Bazzana, Giovanni Battista
[HDS 1202] |
[Introduction to the New Testament] |
Historical Jesus | |
Papyrology and the New Testament | |
[HDS 1536] |
[Apocalyptic Literature] |
Greek Exegesis of John | |
[HDS 1555] |
[Deviance/Witchcraft/Labeling in early Christianity] |
Gospel Parables in their Social Context |
Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M.
[HDS 2726] |
[Ethnography of the African Diaspora: Race, Gender and Power] |
[HDS 2735] |
[Voodooizations and Politics of Representation] |
[HDS 2736] |
[Witchcraft, Rituals and Colonialism] |
[HDS 2738] |
[Gender and Sexuality in Black Atlantic Religions] |
Transnational Feminism | |
Anthropology of "the Religious" Part I | |
[HDS 3103] |
[Anthropology of "the Religious" Part I] |
Anthropology of the Religious Part 2: Methods | |
[HDS 3104] |
[Anthropology of the Religious Part 2: Methods] |
[HDS 3105] |
[Religious Tourism] |
Berlin, Chris
Compassionate Care of the Dying: Buddhist Training and Techniques | |
Clinical Chaplaincy: Interfaith Caregiving Skills and Practice |
Betros, Gemma
Power, Politics, and the Female Religious Life |
Bloomer, Kristin
Altered States: Spirit Possession, Modernity, and Other Dangerous Crossings |
Braude, Ann D.
The Religious History of American Women: Seminar | |
[HDS 2328] |
[Women and Religion in Contemporary America] |
[HDS 2345] |
[Issues in the Study of Native American Religion] |
Religion, Gender, and Politics in Transnational Perspective |
Campbell, William M.
United Methodist Polity |
Carrasco, Davíd
Apocalypse Now/2012: How the World Ends (or Doesn't) in Human Societies |
Casselberry, Judith
Black Women and Global Pentecostalism |
Cesari, Jocelyne
The Role of Religion in the Growth of American Democracy | |
Religion and Democratization in the Context of the Arab Spring |
Cioffi, Robert Louis
Graeca - Reading of Greek Texts: Seminar |
Click, Emily
Histories, Theologies and Practices of Christianity | |
Administration and Leadership |
Clooney, SJ, Francis X.
[HDS 3101] |
[Theology in an Interreligious Perspective] |
[HDS 3750] |
[The Bhagavad Gita and Its Commentators] |
God, Hindu and Christian | |
[HDS 3760] |
[Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary] |
[HDS 3928] |
[Reading Hindu Texts Interreligiously III: The Brhadaranyaka Upanisad with Sankara's Commentary in Translation] |
Yoga Sutras in a Comparative Perspective |
Coogan, Michael
Job and the Problem of Suffering |
Cox, Jr., Harvey G.
Modern Spiritual Pioneers and Religious Revolutionaries |
Eck, Diana L.
World Religions Today: Diaspora, Diversity, and Dialogue | |
Gandhi, Then and Now: Seminar | |
The World's Religions in Multicultural America - Case Studies in Religious Pluralism |
Edwards, Jr., Mark U.
[HDS 2296] |
[Academic Culture and Religion: An Introductory Course] |
Fennema, Sharon R.
Performing the Body: Gender, Sexuality and Desire in Christian Worship | |
Ritual, Culture and Postcolonial Imaginations | |
Curating the Sermon: Preaching and the Arts |
Fiorenza, Francis Schüssler
[HDS 2403] |
[Theology and Culture: Seminar] |
[HDS 2410] |
[Introduction to Hermeneutics and Theology] |
[HDS 2477] |
[Catholicism Faces Modernity: Classics of Twentieth Century Roman Catholicism] |
[HDS 2479] |
[Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology] |
[HDS 2633] |
[Theology and Power: Seminar] |
[HDS 2634] |
[God: Seminar] |
[HDS 2644] |
[Rationality, Relativism, and Theology: Seminar] |
[HDS 2801] |
[Introduction to Justice and Rights] |
Frediani, Judith A.
Unitarian Universalist Religious Education: Seminar | |
[HDS 2844] |
[Unitarian Universalist Religious Education: Seminar] |
Gaston, K. Healan
Protestant-Catholic Relations in America, 1600-2000 | |
Religion and Identity in Modern American History, 1865-2000 | |
The Niebuhr Brothers and Their World |
Giles, Cheryl A.
Spiritual Care and Counseling | |
Spiritual Care and Counseling | |
[HDS 2927] |
[Spiritual Care and Counseling] |
[HDS 2931] |
[Risk and Resilience in Adolescent Development: Seminar] |
Advanced Spiritual Counseling: Taking Care of Others, Taking Care of Self | |
Compassionate Care of the Dying: Buddhist Training and Techniques |
Gnanapragasam, Patrick
Public Religion and Civil Society: Learning from Indian and American Experiences |
Graham, William A.
[HDS 2490] |
[Back Roads to Far Places: Literature of Journey and Quest] |
Gyatso, Janet
Buddhist Women and Representations of the Female | |
[HDS 3563] |
[Buddhism in Tibet] |
The Body and its Moral Cultivation: Buddhist Sources | |
[HDS 3721] |
[The Self Writing the Self: Autobiography and Religion] |
Studying Buddhism Across Time and Place | |
[HDS 3830] |
[Studying Buddhism Across Time and Place] |
Tibetan Religious Literature | |
[HDS 3888] |
[Buddhist Studies Seminar] |
Hall, David D.
Religion in America: From the Coming of the Europeans to the 1870s | |
Religions in North America: An Introduction to the History of Interpretations |
Hallisey, Charles
[HDS 3576] |
[Buddhist Ethics] |
Introduction to Buddhist Narrative and Story Literature | |
[HDS 3777] |
[Modern Buddhism and Fiction] |
[HDS 3779] |
[Introduction to Buddhist Commentaries and Their Critical Interpretations] |
Introduction to Buddhist Scriptural Anthologies and their Critical Interpretations | |
[HDS 3800] |
[Introduction to Buddhist Scriptural Anthologies and their Critical Interpretations] |
[HDS 3836] |
[Introduction to Buddhist Scriptures and Their Critical Interpretation] |
Moral Anthropology: Buddhist Insights |
Hempton, David N.
[HDS 2356] |
[Secularization in Europe and the United States, c. 1780-2000] |
[HDS 2357] |
[Evangelical Conversion and Disenchantment Narratives] |
The American Evangelical Tradition from Jonathan Edwards to Jerry Falwell | |
Colloquium in American Religious History | |
Colloquium in American Religious History | |
[HDS 2390] |
[Colloquium in American Religious History] |
Hogan, Samuel B.
[HDS 2964] |
[Pentecostal Polity] |
Hollywood, Amy
[HDS 2616] |
[Kant and Enthusiasm] |
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality | |
Common Doctor of Theology Seminar |
Huff, Harry
Sacred Music in History and Current Practice | |
The American Spirit in Music |
Ibrahim, Hauwa
Women, Justice, and Shariah |
Jackson, Michael D.
The Shock of the New | |
Poetry and Religion | |
Space and Place: Seminar | |
Ritualization, Play, and Transitional Phenomena |
Johansen, Baber
The Islamic Ritual's Influence on the Legal Reasoning of the Fiqh | |
The Spring of 2011 in the Middle East | |
Does the Fiqh Know a Concept of Natural Law? |
Jungkeit, Steven
Marx and His Readers | |
Aesthetics, Erotics, and Ethics |
Kane, Ousmane Oumar
Islam in African History | |
[HDS 3365] |
[Islam in African History] |
[HDS 3366] |
[Islam in West Africa] |
Islam, Modernity and Politics | |
[HDS 3368] |
[Islam, Modernity and Politics] |
[HDS 3369] |
[Readings in the Islamic Archive of Africa] |
[HDS 3370] |
[Knowledge and Authority in Muslim Societies] |
Kienzle, Beverly M.
Latin Paleography and Manuscript Culture: Seminar | |
[HDS 2223] |
[Latin Paleography and Manuscript Culture: Seminar] |
[HDS 2224] |
[Readings in Christian Latin: Hildegard of Bingen and the Gospels] |
Readings in Christian Latin: Preaching and the Sermon in the Middle Ages |
King, Elizabeth Ann
United Church of Christ Polity |
King, Karen L.
Women, Sex, and Gender in Ancient Christianity | |
[HDS 1700] |
[Orthodoxy and Heresy in Ancient Christianity] |
Sacrifice: Christian Theology, Discourse and Practices in the Landscape of Ancient MediterraneanReligion | |
[HDS 4161] |
[Intermediate Coptic] |
Koester, Helmut
The Apostle Paul: His Letters, His Cities, and His Legacy |
Lamberth, David C.
[HDS 2402] |
[Introduction to Theological Thinking] |
[HDS 2431] |
[Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought: Theology and the Critique of Religion] |
[HDS 2674] |
[Kant: Seminar] |
[HDS 2675] |
[Religious Experience: Seminar] |
Larsen, Donald S.
Lutheran Confessional Theology | |
[HDS 2962] |
[The Lutheran Church (ELCA) - Its Marks and Practices: Seminar] |
Levenson, Jon D.
Ancient Jewish Wisdom Literature | |
Genesis: Narrative Artistry and Theological Meanings | |
Rapid Reading: Classical Hebrew I | |
Rapid Reading: Classical Hebrew II | |
[Judaism: The Liturgical Year] | |
[Judaism: The Liturgical Year] | |
Joseph and Esther: Seminar | |
[HDS 1803] |
[Midrash: The Figure of Abraham: Seminar] |
The Binding of Isaac (Aqedah): Seminar | |
[HDS 1816] |
[The Song at the Sea: Seminar] |
Machinist, Peter
[HDS 1110] |
[History of the Religion of Ancient Israel] |
Law in the World of the Bible | |
History of the Study of the Hebrew Bible: From the Renaissance to the Present: Seminar | |
History and Historiography in the Ancient Near East | |
Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar | |
[HDS 1810] |
[Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar] |
[HDS 1810] |
[Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar] |
Madigan, Kevin James
History of Western Christianity, 150-1100 |
McKanan, Daniel
Alternative Spiritualities in the United States | |
Liberal and Liberation Theologies in Dialogue | |
Histories, Theologies and Practices of Christianity | |
[HDS 2770] |
[Unitarian and Universalist Thought in the Nineteenth Century] |
[HDS 2772] |
[Unitarian and Universalist Thought in the Twentieth Century] |
[HDS 2773] |
[Religion and the Left in US History] |
Unitarian and Universalist History in the United States |
Monius, Anne E.
[HDS 3162] |
[Religion and Literature: An Introduction] |
Introduction to the Hindu Traditions of India | |
[HDS 3405] |
[Indian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures: The Epics] |
[HDS 3406] |
[Hindu Traditions of Devotion] |
Hinduism Through the Modern Novel | |
Hindu Ethics: Seminar | |
[HDS 3925] |
[South Asian Religious Aesthetics: Seminar] |
[HDS 3926] |
[Reading Pre-modern Hindu Narrative Literature: Seminar] |
[HDS 3930] |
[Thinking About History in South Asia: Seminar] |
Moore, Diane L.
[HDS 2802] |
[Religion, Ecology, and Human Rights] |
Religion, Democracy and Education | |
[HDS 2916] |
[Religion, Democracy and Education] |
Murray, Stephen Butler
Baptist Polity, Practice, and History |
Nasrallah, Laura Salah
[HDS 1202] |
[Introduction to the New Testament] |
[HDS 1544] |
[The Letters of Paul: Ethnicity, Sex, Ethics, and the End of the World] |
Prophecy, Ecstasy, and Dreams in Early Christian History | |
[HDS 1551] |
[Greek Exegesis of 1 Corinthians] |
Archaeology and the World of the New Testament: Seminar | |
[HDS 1870] |
[Archaeology and the World of the New Testament: Seminar] |
Seminar for Advanced New Testament Students | |
New Testament Seminar for Doctoral Dissertations |
Olendzki, Andrew
Buddhist Psychology: Theory and Practice |
Olupona, Jacob
Christianity, Identity, and Civil Society in Africa | |
[HDS 2337] |
[Christianity, Identity, and Civil Society in Africa] |
African Religions | |
[HDS 3690] |
[African Religions] |
[HDS 3702] |
[Religion, Diaspora, and Migration: Seminar] |
[HDS 3703] |
[Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity: Seminar] |
[HDS 3703] |
[Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity: Seminar] |
[HDS 3704] |
[Religion and Society in Nigeria: Seminar] |
Parsa, Parisa Day
Unitarian Universalist Polity and Practices: Seminar |
Partridge, Cameron Elliot
Complementarity and its Discontents: Theologies of the Human in Premodern Christianity and Contemporary Debate | |
Preaching in the Christian Liturgical Year: Incarnation to Pascha |
Patton, Kimberley C.
Emerging Topics in Greek Religion | |
The Deep: Purity, Danger, and Metamorphosis |
Paulsell, Stephanie A.
[HDS 2490] |
[Back Roads to Far Places: Literature of Journey and Quest] |
[HDS 2491] |
[Spiritual Formation and the Life of Study: Seminar] |
[HDS 2493] |
[Literature and the Pastoral Imagination: Seminar] |
Virginia Woolf and Religion | |
[HDS 3162] |
[Religion and Literature: An Introduction] |
Introduction to Ministry Studies | |
[HDS 4510] |
[Introduction to Ministry Studies] |
[HDS 4510] |
[Introduction to Ministry Studies] |
Pearson, Lori Kay
Gender, Authority, and Domination in Modern Theologies and Theories of Religion |
Phillips, Sue
Unitarian Universalist Polity and Practices: Seminar |
Potter, Jr., Ralph Benajah
The Rise and Fall of the Simple Life |
Ragab, Ahmed
Science and Religion: Debates, Approaches, and Controversies | |
The Word(s) of the Prophet: Prophetic Traditions through History | |
Bodies and Sexualities in the Medieval Middle East: Medical, Cultural, and Religious Views | |
Crusades, Plagues and Hospitals: Medicine, Religion and Society in the Medieval Mediterranean |
Rivera Rivera, Mayra
Readings in Postmodern Theology | |
[HDS 2458] |
[Spirits in Latina Literature] |
[HDS 2459] |
[Levinas and His Readers] |
Gender, Race, and Transformation Latina Theory | |
Body and Flesh: Christian Metaphors in Contemporary Theory | |
[HDS 2607] |
[ Wonder and Glory] |
[HDS 2618] |
[Memory in Postmodern and Postcolonial Thought] |
Rose, Dudley Corwin
[HDS 2871] |
[Church Ministry in a Digital Age: Preaching, Worship, Teaching, Communication, and Administration] |
A Profile in Ministry: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Seminar | |
Introduction to Ministry Studies | |
[HDS 4510] |
[Introduction to Ministry Studies] |
[HDS 4510] |
[Introduction to Ministry Studies] |
Saley, Richard
Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar | |
[HDS 1810] |
[Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar] |
[HDS 1810] |
[Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar] |
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Seminar | |
[HDS 1819] |
[Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Seminar] |
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth
Introduction to the New Testament | |
[HDS 1503] |
[Gospel Stories of Women] |
[HDS 1504] |
[Feminist Biblical Interpretation] |
New Testament Ethics and Theology: Seminar | |
Seminar for Advanced New Testament Students | |
New Testament Seminar for Doctoral Dissertations |
Siljak, Zilka Spahic
Women, Spirituality, and Peace |
Smith, Daniel Albert
Introduction to Public Preaching | |
[HDS 2907] |
[Introduction to Public Preaching] |
[HDS 2907] |
[Introduction to Public Preaching] |
Smith, Gary E.
Preaching in the Unitarian Universalist and Free Church Traditions: Seminar |
Stang, Charles Marshall
[HDS 1748] |
[The Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite] |
Early Christian Thought 1: The Greek Tradition | |
Early Christian Thought 2: The Latin Tradition | |
[HDS 1751] |
[Early Christian Thought 3: The Syriac Tradition] |
Augustine and His Heretics | |
[HDS 1757] |
[Neoplatonism 1: Plotinus] |
Origen, Evagrius, and Cassian |
Stern, Kaia
Ethics, Punishment and Race | |
Eye Contact, Ethics and Interbeing |
Teeter, David Andrew
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 1: Pentateuch and Former Prophets | |
[HDS 1102] |
[Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 1: Pentateuch and Former Prophets] |
[HDS 1102] |
[Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 1: Pentateuch and Former Prophets] |
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 2: Latter Prophets and Writings | |
[HDS 1103] |
[Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 2: Latter Prophets and Writings] |
[HDS 1103] |
[Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 2: Latter Prophets and Writings] |
[HDS 1302] |
[Rewriting Scripture in Jewish Antiquity: Seminar] |
Scriptural Interpretation in Ancient Israel: Inner-Biblical Exegesis | |
[HDS 1308] |
[Scriptural Interpretation in Ancient Israel: Inner-Biblical Exegesis] |
[HDS 1309] |
[Topics in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Exegesis at Qumran] |
Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar | |
[HDS 1810] |
[Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar] |
[HDS 1810] |
[Problems in the Literature, History, and Religion of Israel: Seminar] |
To Be Announced,
[HDS 4158] |
[Elementary Coptic II] |
van den Hoek, Annewies
Advanced Greek: Martyrdom | |
Advanced Greek: Writing History | |
Intermediate Greek II |
Walton, Jonathan L.
[HDS 2882] |
[Readings in British Cultural Studies] |
[HDS 3200] |
[African American Religions: An Introduction] |
[HDS 3251] |
[Pentecost and Prosperity: The Ethics of Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements] |
[HDS 3262] |
[Beyond Peasants and Proletarians: Black Religions and the Social Sciences in the 20th Century] |
Willard, Mara
Religion and American Public Life | |
Christian Ethics and Modern Society | |
Christian Perspectives on War and Peace |
Williams, Preston Noah
The Ethical and Religious Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Seminar | |
[HDS 2721] |
[The Ethical and Religious Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Seminar] |

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