Christianity

Thomas Santa Maria is a Yang Visting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School for the 2023-24 academic year. He has published in journals including the Catholic Historical Review , and the Journal of Early Modern Christianity . He comes to...

“There’s a lot of Mormonism in my Zen and a lot of Zen in my Mormonism,” Thomas McConkie, MDiv ’25, says. This elegant synthesis, however, took years of meditation and spiritual exploration to articulate. During his freshman year in college at the...

Nathanael J. Homewood is a Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School for the 2023-24 academic year. His research focuses on Christianity in Africa, especially Ghanaian Pentecostalism, and the large-scale connections between...

"I think the relationship is on life support, and people of good faith are working to try to solve the problem and to heal the shattered fragments of the relationship," says HDS Professor Terrence Johnson of the relationship between Black and Jewish...

“I never thought that I would get into Harvard Divinity School. I still remember the morning I received my online acceptance letter. I had just woken up, unlocked my phone in spite of my blurry vision, and saw that I had an update on my application status...

Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History and interim dean of HDS, traces Christmas celebrations' path from wild revelry through Puritan’s progress to Hallmark holiday.

Dr. Gina A. Zurlo’s research focuses on the sociology of religion, women’s studies, and quantifying the demographic makeup of World Christianity. Among her many achievements, Zurlo is the co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at...

This lecture was given by Jessica J. Fowler (University of Montana Western), who is an HDS Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Catholicism on her work, "Illuminating the Empire: The Spanish Inquisition and the Spread of Global Heresy."...

“What’s remarkable is how much evidence has survived systematic attempts to erase women from history and with them the warrants and models for women’s leadership. The evidence presented here is but the tip of an iceberg,” said Professor Karen King.

The Constellation Project is pleased to announce the publication of our second “Prayer Book,” by HDS student Morgan Curtis. “The Decolonial Dames of America,” is a landmark essay about the importance of ancestral repair work needed to be taken by the...