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Wallace Best Appointed Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies
04.08.2004 News Story

Wallace D. Best has accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
Other or Together? Conference Explores Place of Islam in the American Consciousness
03.29.2004 News Story

Leading theologians, historians, and people of faith gathered at HDS for the fifth annual Islam in America conference.
Women Healing Women Conference
Women Healing Women Conference
03.22.2004 Video

The Women Healing Women program, sponsored by the Religion, Health, and Healing Initiative of the Center for the Study of World Religions, with funding from the Germeshausen Foundation,...
Panel on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
03.18.2004 Audio

Professor Kevin Madigan moderates a discussion on the recently released film. The panel also includes HDS professors Ellen Aitken, François Bovon, Harvey Cox, and Robert Orsi, as well as columnist...
Carrasco Organizes International Team of Scholars to Decipher Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerican Codex
03.15.2004 News Story

A team of scholars works to decipher the sixteenth-century codex, Mapa de Cuauhtinchan ("Place of the Eagle").
Paradox of Gender: State-Run Religious Schools in Israel
03.04.2004 Audio

Hanna Herzog, PhD (Tel Aviv University), Colorado Scholar and Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer in World Religions.
Ministry Colloquium: Crossing by Faith: Preaching and the Journey from Youth to Adulthood
03.01.2004 Audio

A conversation about preaching and vocational development, and a celebration of the work of the Rev. Claudia Highbaugh. Featuring David Bartlett (Yale Divinity School) and Kay Bessler Northcutt...
Student Profile: Marlon Millner
02.25.2004 News Story

After returning from a recent two-week trip to Cameroon, Marlon Millner said that what had surprised him most about his first visit to the African continent was how not surprised he...
Marriage in Early Muslim Law: The Consolidation of Male Authority
02.19.2004 Audio

This lecture was delivered by Kecia Ali, PhD (Brandeis University), Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer in World Religions.
Marlon Millner: How Was Cameroon?
02.15.2004 News Story

Marlon Miller reflects on his first visit to Africa.