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Tag: ” Harvard Divinity School
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Campus & Community
More than just meat
Vegan Carol J. Adams speaks about meat eating as more than violence against animals, saying that it’s also often an expression of violence against women.
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Campus & Community
Language of learning
With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.
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Campus & Community
Walton appointed assistant professor of African American religions
Social ethicist and African American religious studies scholar Jonathan Walton has been named assistant professor of African American religions at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1.
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Campus & Community
Treading the green carpet
One day after Earth Day, Harvard continued to celebrate the environment, rolling out a green carpet for the individuals, teams, projects, and Schools that have advanced the cause of sustainability.
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Campus & Community
Bringing faiths together
Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions celebrates its 50th anniversary of mining the commonalities of faith.
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Arts & Culture
‘Walden’ for the 21st century
In a lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, scholar Lawrence Buell examined the continuing relevance of Thoreau’s “Walden” and the importance of voluntary simplicity.
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Campus & Community
Clooney named 2010-11 Luce Fellow
The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation have named Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School, one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2010-11.
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Arts & Culture
Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders
Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, extracts wealth from his 30 years of work in comparative theology and proffers this field guide.
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Arts & Culture
Witnesses to history
Andover-Harvard Theological Library nears completion of major project to digitize Holocaust-related archives.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School
For a week in late January, five Harvard Divinity School students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after a 2009 coup in which Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by the country’s military.
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Science & Tech
Reality check
Author-turned-activist Bill McKibben says the fight to arrest global warming requires an international movement to force political change.
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Nation & World
Faith and the marketplace
A panel of religious scholars examined the role of organized religion in helping to shape the national debate on economic reform and the country’s moral direction.
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Arts & Culture
Islamic treasures a click away
Harvard’s libraries and museums pull together vast materials on the Web, in tandem with Islamic Studies Program.
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Campus & Community
Center for the Study of World Religions names Francis X. Clooney next director
Francis X. Clooney, a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus, has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School, beginning July 1.
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Campus & Community
A snapshot of Harvard’s emission reductions
In 2007, Harvard University pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, inclusive of growth, 30 percent by 2016, with 2006 as the baseline year. University-wide, GHG reductions are around 5 percent so far, including growth. The reductions are due to changes in Harvard’s energy supply and to activities and projects at Schools and units.
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Health
Want to live well?
Harvard faculty members from a range of fields give tips on how to live healthy.
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Campus & Community
Voluntary retirement program
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered a customized voluntary retirement program to 127 eligible faculty members. At the same time, four of Harvard’s graduate and professional schools unveiled similar plans to eligible members of their faculties.
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Nation & World
God and Walmart
Author and scholar Bethany Moreton examines the success of the discount retail chain Walmart and its Christian corporate ethos.
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Nation & World
Intersection of climate change and Christianity
A leader in the field of Christian theology and ecofeminism explores the role of religion in combating global warming.
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Nation & World
Rebel with a cause
Before Greg Epstein became chaplain at Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy, he was a rock star. Now he’s written a book on Humanism, a religious philosophy that rejects supernaturalism while encouraging virtuous actions and decisions.
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Arts & Culture
HDS and the Civil War scholar
Harvard President Drew Faust served as guest lecturer for a Harvard Divinity School class, where she discussed her most recent book.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School
A new lecture series presented by the Center for the Study of World Religions explores ecology in light of religion.
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Campus & Community
Grazing rights
In honor of his retirement from the Divinity School’s Hollis Chair, Harvey Cox exercised his right to graze a cow in Harvard Yard.
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Campus & Community
Harvard unleashes a historic sacred cow
Retiring Harvard professor Harvey Cox, who for 44 years has held the oldest endowed chair at a US university finally lay claim to the Hollis Professor of Divinity’s centuries-old right to graze his cow in Harvard Yard, which a colleague of his said was the equivalent of parking privileges in the 1700s.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School
On Sept. 10, at 4:30 p.m., a cow will cross the Yard — in celebration of the achievements of Hollis Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, who retired in June.
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Campus & Community
Holy cow! Bovine to visit Harvard Yard
“I’m reclaiming a tradition that almost got lost,’’ [Harvey Cox] said last week on the porch of his summer house in Woods Hole. “Why can’t we have cows grazing in Harvard Yard?”
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Arts & Culture
Making music and keeping the faith
The father of two young children and an amateur musician, Matthew Myer Boulton, HDS associate professor of ministry studies, is investigating the spiritual dimension of human experience through the use of song with his newly formed band Butterflyfish.
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Arts & Culture
Nine Graduate Students Receive Loeb Fellowships
Harvard Divinity School (HDS) has announced nine recipients of John L. Loeb Fellowships for summer and term-time research in 2009.
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Campus & Community
Two American religious historians appointed to the Faculty of Divinity
Renowned scholars of American religious history R. Marie Griffith and Leigh Eric Schmidt have been appointed to the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) faculty, effective July 1. Griffith will be the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, and Schmidt will be the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America.
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Campus & Community
‘My ministry is in the birthing rooms’
To Cemelli de Aztlan, the U.S.-Mexico border region is not just a line on a map dividing two nations and two cultures, it’s a place of its own, different from the countries whose edges define it; and it has its own culture of transition, of blending, and sometimes of violence.