Category: Recent News

Our interim chair, Luis M. Girón-Negrón, (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures) has released a new book, El envés de lo inefable: estudios de literatura mística española available in print and electronic form, from Iberoamericana Vauvert….

The Harvard Crimson’s article covers Diana Eck’s talk at Harvard Medical School on Wednesday about Higher Education’s pivot to pluralism….

Francis X. Clooney (Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School) is releasing a new book. His memoir Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story will be available in print and electronic form starting June 2024, from T&T Clark/Bloomsbury.   Prof. Clooney also received two honorary degrees during the 2023-24 academic year: from the University of…

The Harvard Crimson wrote about our first event of the Conversations on Religion 2025 series, which featured E.J. Dionne and Carleigh Beriont….

This fall Catherine Brekus was interviewed about Christian nationalism for the National Public Radio show, Throughline….

Catherine Brekus was interviewed about the history of religion in America for the program, For the Ages: A History Podcast with David M. Rubenstein. Her interview was published in his book, The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream (2021) A podcast of the interview was recently released:…

New research on Asian immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries challenges the romanticized notion of the US as a land of equal opportunity, centering religion and race in stories of exclusion, liberation, and American citizenship. …

One of our juniors at the college, Shira Hoffer, was awarded a 2024 General Education Prize!…

The Committee on the Study of Religion co-hosted Harvard Daoist Studies Symposium: “The Body, Gender, and Self-Cultivation in Daoism.”…

 Shira Hoffer ’25 explains the inspiration behind her Hotline for Israel/Palestine project; check out the Harvard Gazette article….