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Kenneth W. Morgan, 103, Helped Create the Center for the Study of World Religions

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Kenneth W. Morgan died at the age of 103 on December 23, 2011, bringing a long life of accomplishment to a close. In noting his death here, the Center for the Study of World Religions also wants to celebrate all that Kenneth Morgan did that continues to...

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Exploring Art and Scholarship through a New Lens at the Center for the Study of World Religions

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On a frigid January afternoon, students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College stepped carefully around the ice and snow surrounding Walden Pond. Accompanied only by a phone camera and a spirit of open curiosity, they...

Charles Stang Named Director of Center for the Study of World Religions

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Francis Clooney Named New Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School

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Doors in Every Direction

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The Transcendence and Transformation Initiative Encourages Exploration of a Multilayered Reality

Yang Visiting Scholar Gina Zurlo’s Groundbreaking Research on Women in World Christianity

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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...

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Harvard Divinity School's academic and teaching resources are enhanced and its spiritual and community life enriched by the programs and special projects that are an integral part of the School. Center for the Study of World Religions Since the late 1950s...

Anthropologist Describes Supernatural Adventures

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In a conversation sponsored by the Transcendence and Transformation initiative of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Jack Hunter, a Welsh author and anthropologist who studies consciousness, religion, ecology, and the paranormal, discussed his...

Harvard Divinity Faculty Presenting at 2022 AAR, SBL Annual Meetings

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Several Harvard Divinity School faculty members and fellows will be in Denver, Colorado, in late November to present during the 2022 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings. The conference, which takes place...

Stang Discusses the CSWR’s ‘Peculiar Alchemy’

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On July 1, Professor of Early Christian Thought Charles Stang became the seventh director of Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, succeeding Parkman Professor of Divinity Francis X. Clooney, S.J. A scholar of asceticism...

Charles M. Stang

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• AB, Harvard College
• MDiv, University of Chicago
• ThD, Harvard Divinity School

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Charles Stang joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2008. His research and teaching focus on Christianity in late antiquity and, more broadly, philosophy and religion...