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People of Faith in Times of Crisis: Apeirogon by Colum McCann Concludes HDS Community Book Read

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Harvard Divinity School hosted the third and final session of Dean Frederick's three-part series, “People of Faith in Times of Crisis,” with a powerful conclusion featuring award-winning novelist Colum McCann.

HDS Community Book Read and Discussion Aims to Foster Dialogue across Difference

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On Monday, February 10, Harvard Divinity School held the first session of its new three-part series, “People of Faith in Times of Crisis,” organized by HDS Dean Marla F. Frederick and designed to foster deeper understanding and engagement at the School...

Beyond Differences: Book Discussion Examines the Power of Friendship in Pursuing Peace with Justice

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Part two of Dean Marla Frederick's "People of Faith in Times of Crisis" series focused on Where the Line is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine by the Palestinian lawyer, writer, and human rights...

Finding a Civil Civic Community

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Professor Terrence Johnson will join faith leaders participating in “Dialogue in Good Faith,” a panel discussion to be held at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in New Jersey later this month.

Summer Internship Furthers International Peacebuilding Efforts

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"Conflicts are driven by a number of complicated factors, but are often mislabeled as religious. This experience showed me that religious literacy is necessary in peacebuilding to appropriately address the ambivalent and complex religious dimensions of...

US Official Calls Religious Intolerance in India 'Frightening'

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"U.S. advocacy for religious freedom must be conflict-sensitive, so as not to render already vulnerable communities more vulnerable nor exacerbate religious dimensions of conflict," Susan Hayward, associate director of the Religious Literacy and the...

Refugees and Islamophobia in Western Europe: The Boomerang Effect

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"Even when religious life in the country of origin stops because of exile and displacement, the influence of religion persists not only through family life, culture, and transnational forms of communication, but it is also changed by the cultural and...

The Alarming Intensification and Globalization of Islamophobia

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"In the last decade, the surge of Islamophobia has become worldwide, reaching India, China and even Muslim countries. This geographic expansion goes hand-in-hand with an expansion and intensification of the discrimination not only of Muslims but also of...

What the Epiphany Teaches Us About Political Hatred

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"What’s indisputable is that, in the ancient story, the holy is made manifest in openness to others. Hospitality is how epiphany happens. Hostility to ethnic and religious outsiders, meanwhile, leads to the massacre of one’s innocent own," writes Matthew...

Religious Literacy in International Affairs

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Susan Hayward, associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative at HDS, leads a conversation on religious literacy in international affairs for the Council on Foreign Relations.