Wearing Divine Protection
As a state-of-the-art “wearable technology” of the time, talismans provided protection, perquisites, and prescriptions for the devotees of premodern Korean Buddhism. Among a varied array of talismans ...
23 Feb 20231h 26min
Initiated by the Spirits with Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, PhD & Randy Chung Gonzales
Randy Chung Gonzales was leading an ordinary life in his hometown of Lamas, Peru, when his employer, anthropologist Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, asked him to accompany her to an ayahuasca ceremony led b...
23 Feb 20231h 23min
What is “’Awra”?: Women, Gendered Space, and Islamic Law
This lecture, given by Visiting Lecturer on Islam and Women's Studies in Religion Program 2022-23 Research Associate Rahina Muazu, discusses awra (an Arabic word that is translated as nakedness, genit...
15 Feb 202344min
HDS and Slavery: Family Stories
Harvard Divinity School was founded nearly forty years after slavery was abolished in Massachusetts, yet many of our school’s founders and early students were intimately familiar with both enslavement...
15 Feb 20231h 30min
Religion, Race, and the Double Helix of White Supremacy
It has long been a historical truism that, in the early modern West, pseudoscientific racial hierarchies replaced religious hierarchies as the dominant framework for understanding human difference and...
10 Feb 20231h 29min
William James and the Sick Soul
As part of Harvard Divinity School's annual William James Lectures on Religious Experience, Professor John Kaag presented "William James and the Sick Soul." This lecture discussed William James's 1895...
8 Feb 20231h 25min
Enslavement in the Formation of Earliest Christianity
This conversation was the first of the six-part series Religion and the Legacies of Slavery: A Series of Public Online Conversations. The featured speaker was Karen L. King, Hollis Professor of Divini...
8 Feb 20231h 30min
BMI 10th Anniversary: Phillip Henderson
This fall, Harvard Divinity School celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI). In honor of this anniversary, the community engaged in discussions of Buddhist ministry in...
5 Jan 20234min
