Religious Literacy

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.

"A successful co-management model is all about transparency, and having a consensus in sharing of ideas and ways of knowing. We are taught to take care of the land. It’s more of an act of love, not an act of a job," said Cynthia Wilson, Religion and...

“I think part of creating anything is having hope that there is something else that’s possible,” said Maggie Rogers, MRPL '22.

The songwriter, producer, and performer will earn a Master of Religion and Public Life degree When Maggie Rogers took the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April to perform in front of tens of thousands of people, many of them...

Three HDS alums who now work in media reflected on how their religious studies at HDS prepared them for mining religions “to advance the public understanding of religion for the service of justice and peace.”

Ans Irfan, a public health expert and student at the Harvard Divinity School, discussed his project on religion as a structural determinant of health during a virtual presentation on Monday.

Join us in witnessing and celebrating the inaugural cohort of Master of Religion and Public Life candidates as they present their final projects that engage the complexity of religion within their vocations.

Kennedy School lecturer Marshall L. Ganz and Rutgers University associate professor Noura Erakat discussed power and decolonization in Palestine and Israel in a virtual conversation hosted by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at HDS.

Vladimir Putin's invasion and war on Ukraine is a crisis. It's a crisis that is unfolding before our very eyes across social media and cable and online news, and it's more than just a political crisis, though that's likely what most of us are hearing...

Hindu monastics at Harvard Divinity have been shaped by experiences both inside and outside of the classroom. If you ask Harvard Divinity School’s Swami Harinamananda which piece of art has had the biggest impact on his life, he will most likely mention...