In her first Convocation address as HDS Dean, Marla F. Frederick examines shared grief and hope, while setting the stage for ...

The Buddhist Ministry Initiative (BMI) at Harvard Divinity School—the first of its kind at a divinity school within a research university in the United States—trains future Buddhist religious ...

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Research Professor of Divinity, has done pioneering work in biblical interpretation and feminist theology. Her teaching and research focus on questions ...

Mark D. Jordan is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. At Harvard, he has offered courses on the Western traditions of Christian soul-shaping, the relations of ...

In the Jewish tradition, one becomes a rabbi after receiving “smicha,” or ordination, from the rabbinical seminaries of the different movements of American Judaism (Reform, Conservative, ...

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

An original work that is based upon a topic that you are interested in studying here at HDS. You may reuse a previous work, especially if you feel that it best represents your academic writing ...

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) ...

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 Master of Theology (ThM) program affords an opportunity for students who have received the Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree or its equivalent (three years of graduate theological study) to pursue ...