Professor David Holland (left) speaks virtually with the Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh, whose 2017 book was the center of ...

This calendar is not an exhaustive list either of religious traditions or of the holidays observed in those traditions. If we have not included a religious tradition or major religious holiday of ...

Religion can intersect with and inform nearly every field of study—from education to advocacy, literature to law, and policy to ethical business practices. The master of theological studies (MTS) ...

Religions have functioned throughout human history to inspire and justify the full range of agency from the heinous to the heroic. Their influences remain potent at the dawn of the twenty-first ...

Student organizations provide opportunities for involvement, leadership, programming, social connections, and experiential learning that are crucial to the educational mission of the Divinity School.

The Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, PhD, is Visiting Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School for the 2024-25 academic year. While at HDS, she will teach one course in the fall and one in the spring ...

Ute Possekel is Lecturer on Syriac at Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Possekel joined the adjunct faculty at HDS in 2014, and has taught courses in elementary, intermediate, and advanced Syriac since ...

“The MDiv program at Harvard Divinity School is unparalleled in the diversity of the people, perspectives, and vocational pathways it holds together. Yet, all of our students are united in their ...

Harvard Divinity School is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in ...

The origins of Harvard Divinity School and of the study of theology at Harvard can be traced back to the very beginning of Harvard College, when an initial fund of 400 pounds from the General Court of ...

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza came to HDS in 1986, having taught previously at the University of Notre Dame, Villanova University, and the Catholic University of America. His primary interests are in the ...

Charles Hallisey joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2007–08 after teaching at the University of Wisconsin as Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia and the Religious ...