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Spirituality and the arts at the HDS Center for the Study of World Religions is part of a larger initiative exploring religious and spiritual traditions and practices that nurture transcendence to alternative states of being that can effect change in...

During long periods of space travel, humans endure observable physical and psychological difficulties, but they also face less obvious spiritual difficulties. Engineers and space scientists focus on astronauts’ bodies and minds but not their souls...

On Sunday, April 28th, 2024, a diverse group of participants from the Harvard Divinity School (HDS), including students, faculty, staff and affiliates, embarked on a field trip to the unique spiritual community known as the Church of the Woods in...

Experts in law, philosophy, and spiritual care spoke at the first event of the Center for the Study of World Religions’ new psychedelics and ethics initiative, part of the University’s recently launched Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture, which...

Author and cultural historian Mike Jay discussed the role of psychedelics as a bridge between science and spirituality at a Monday webinar hosted by the Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions.

Warm afternoon light poured through the arched windows of the Williams Chapel at Harvard Divinity School as a small but attentive crowd gathered to hear poet Donald Revell deliver a poetry reading, craft talk, and discussion sponsored by the Center for...

David Abram, Senior Visiting Scholar in Ecology and Natural Philosophy at the Center for the Study of World Religions, conjures the impossible movements of Alaskan salmon, sandhill cranes, and monarch butterflies on their annual migrations, marveling at...

For when we worry that transcendence might be an escape from our here and now, I want to ask whether we should be confident that we know our here and now, or in the plural, our “heres” and our “nows," writes Charles Stang, Professor of Early Christian...

Sravana Borkataky-Varma, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Transcendence and Transformation at the Center for the Study of World Religions, explains the history and mythology behind the traditions of Holi and how its celebrated.

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...