Violence

"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...

The below message was sent to members of the HDS community from Dean David N. Hempton on May 16, 2022. Dear members of the HDS community, The violent, premeditated, and racist hate crime perpetrated on the Black community of Buffalo, New York, has...

Experts, including former extremists, discussed efforts to counter hate groups and extremist violence at a panel at Harvard Divinity School on Monday.

Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, discusses how nationalism has hijacked Russian religion.

Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, discusses how Vladimir Putin is not just involved in a violent land grab. He believes he's fighting his own holy war to restore the ancient territory of the...

Todne Thomas, Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies, examined the 2015 burning of a predominantly African American church as part of a wider discussion about the phenomenon of Black church arson at a virtual lecture Friday.

The below message was sent to members of the HDS community from Dean David N. Hempton on March 1, 2022. Dear members of the HDS community, I write today about the Russian invasion currently underway in Ukraine. The images and reports are profoundly...

"To remedy such a distortion, we are better off differentiating religious nationalism from religious populism. The rioters are better defined as an example of the latter rather than the former," writes Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting...

“The healing garden is about curing, not just remembering. It’s about restoration, it’s about hope of transformation, coming out of this,” said HDS Professor Davíd Carrasco. "It's also saying to the people who have tried to put a boot in the face of...