Zachary Zumwalt, MRPL ’23, is an active-duty Navy chaplain (20 years) who has served in Korea, Japan, and around the United States. As a member of the second MRPL cohort, he explored religious literacy in the context of the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps...
When Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School launched three years ago, it engendered a new Certificate in Religion and Public Life, providing students the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and networks to leverage their master of...
Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., reports back after he spent five weeks in India this summer keeping his "eyes and ears wide open," and on the 50th anniversary of his landing in India in 1973 on his way to teach in Nepal.
"In the last decade, the surge of Islamophobia has become worldwide, reaching India, China and even Muslim countries. This geographic expansion goes hand-in-hand with an expansion and intensification of the discrimination not only of Muslims but also of...
Leren Gao, MTS candidate, spent her summer learning Sanskrit in Kathmandu, Nepal. With her goal of eventually pursuing a PhD in the field of Tibetan Buddhist studies, Sanskrit is a valuable language to learn for Leren.
T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding Jocelyne Cesari writes on the religious component of the global refugees crisis and its consequences for governance.
With over 220 million individuals spread across the Middle East, Central and South Asia, Africa, and the West, the study of Shi’ism is of growing importance in world affairs. The Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at Harvard Divinity School undertakes...
“The early graduates are now in a position to give back, to share what they’ve learned, and to help shape the next generation to face new challenges. I feel like I’m watching the bud of the lotus emerge from the water and waiting to see what color it will...
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.