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The Importance of HBCUs in the Making of American Democracy

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Part of the "Symposium on Religion and American Democracy." The Importance of HBCUs in the Making of American Democracy Speakers: Jelani M. Favors, Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor of History, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State...

Video: The Importance of HBCUs in the Making of American Democracy

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Part of the "Symposium on Religion and American Democracy," held September 27, 2024. Speakers: Jelani M. Favors, Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor of History, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Tony Frazier, Assistant Professor...

Video: Is a Multireligious Democracy Possible? A Conversation with Past Presidents of the AAR

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Part of the "Symposium on Religion and American Democracy," held September 27, 2024. Speakers: Diana L. Eck, PhD ’76, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Emerita; Fredric Wertham Research Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the...

Book Interview: Terrence L. Johnson Interviews Corey Brettschneider about Presidents and Democracy

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TERRENCE JOHNSON: Hello, friends. It's great to have my former teacher and now friend and colleague, Corey Brettschneider, Brown University Professor, here to talk about his new book The Presidents and the People Five Leaders Who Threaten Democracy and...

American Democracy Redux

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Lessons from the Past, Hope for the Future

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In her first Convocation address as HDS Dean, Marla F. Frederick examines shared grief and hope, while setting the stage for the following day's "Symposium on Religion and American Democracy." On September 26, 2024, hundreds of Harvard Divinity School...

Scholar Creates ‘More Light and Less Heat’ around Judeo-Christian Political Discourse

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K. Healan Gaston is Lecturer on American Religious History and Ethics at Harvard Divinity School for 2019–20. Gaston is a specialist in the history of religious thought, ethics, and theology, and she teaches courses on religion’s roles in the intellectual...

Political Islam and Muslim Democracy

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Muslim countries cannot be considered secular and liberal in the way we in the U.S. understand these qualifications, says Jocelyne Cesari, Lecturer in Islamic Studies at HDS.

Shurden Lecture Takes on the ‘Myth of American Chosenness’

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“There is a significant difference between the eighteenth century and the present. The white Christian nationalists who supported the American Revolution were tainted by their racism and their refusal to extend political rights to women, but they defended...

Video: Imagining Judeo-Christian America—Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy

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Video: Yang Scholars 2025: Christian Nationalism in Global Perspective

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The Yang Visiting Scholars in World Christianity program brings distinguished senior and junior scholars of world Christianity to Harvard Divinity School each year, opening up fresh perspectives, particularly from the global south. David N. Hempton...

Video: Celebrating Dhamma Chakra Day: Buddhism as Emancipation

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This special HDS Buddhist Ministry Initiative event commemorated Dhamma Chakra Day, the anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism along with 500,000 of his followers. Dr. Ambedkar’s peaceful, egalitarian, and grassroots movement of social...