Harvard Divinity School

The the symposium on Religious Literacy and Humanitarian Action opened on January 19, 2017 with a plenary panel featuring Alastair Ager, Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, and Azza Karam.

Opening remarks are offered by HDS Dean David N. Hempton, Diane L. Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at HDS, and Stephen Prothero, Professor of Religion at Boston University.

Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Alastair Ager, Sahar Ali, Nahuel Arenas, and Manal Omar discuss the humanitarian crisis of resource distribution in Sudan.

Stephen Prothero moderated the discussion.

Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Etty Terem, Associate Professor, Rhodes College, “The New Mi`yar of al-Wazzani: Redefining Islamic Orthodoxy and the Making of Modern Morocco”

Ismail Warscheid, Research Fellow CNRS, “A West African Approach to Islamic Law? Sahelo Saharan Legal Writing in Post Classical Malikism”

Sarah Eltantawi, Assistant Professor, Comparative Religion and Islamic Studies. The Evergreen State College ”The influence of Northern Nigeria’s encounter with European colonialism on the development of Islamic law.”

Matthew Steele, PhD Student, Harvard University, “The Khalil and Commentary: Making of Legal Literary Canon in West Africa”

Panel chair: Zachary Wright, Northwestern University Qatar

Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa website:

http://hds.harvard.edu/texts-knowledge-practice-africa

Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Mauro Nobili, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign A Nineteenth-Century Political Project: Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir’s Tārīkh al-fattāsh

Noah Salomon, Associate Professor of Religion, Carleton College, “Rethinking Scripturalism: Ethics, Knowledge, and Textual Practice in Contemporary Sudan”

Oludamini Ogunnaike, Assistant Professor of Religion, College of William and Mary, “Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa”

Farah El-Sharif, PhD Student, Harvard University Sunnah as “Open Source” in Hājj ʿUmar al-Fūti’s Kitāb al-Rimāh

Panel chair: Charles Hallisey, Harvard Divinity School

Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa website:

http://hds.harvard.edu/texts-knowledge-practice-africa

Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Journalists and scholars discussed refugees, immigration, and national security during a symposium organized by the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School in collaboration with Boston University.

Panelists were: Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post; Stewart Hoover, UC Boulder College of Media, Communication and Information; and Angela Zito, Center for Religion and Media at New York University.

Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Journalists and scholars discussed the Black Lives Matter movement during a symposium organized by the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School in collaboration with Boston University.

The panelists were: Adelle Banks, of Religion News Service; Lilly Fowler, of Religion and Ethics Newsweekly; Nathan Schneider of the University of Colorado, Boulder; Wendi Thomas, a 2016 Nieman Fellow; and Diane Winston, the the Knight Center Chair in Media and Religion at the University of Southern California, Annenberg.

Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

A roundtable discussion with journalists and scholars during a symposium organized by the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School in collaboration with Boston University.

Panelists were: Diane Moore, Harvard Divinity School; Stephen Prothero, Boston University; and Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times.

Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Journalists and scholars discussed Donald Trump and evangelicals during a symposium organized by the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School in collaboration with Boston University.

The panelists were: Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post, Jason DeRose, National Public Radio News; Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Princeton University; Debra Mason, Missouri School of Journalism; and Jeff Sharlet, Dartmouth College.

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New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein delivers the keynote address during the Religious Literacy and Journalism Symposium at Harvard Divinity School.

Opening remarks are offered by HDS Dean David N. Hempton, Diane L. Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at HDS, and Stephen Prothero, Professor of Religion at Boston University.

Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium co-sponsored with the conference "Pluralism Project @ 25: Diversity and Inclusion in the American Crucible."

This event was held on September 22, 2016. The featured speakers were Sarbpreet Singh, playwright, commentator, and poet, and J. Mehr Kaur, graduate of Smith College with a BA in theatre and an emphasis in directing. Mr. Singh and Ms. Kaur were joined by the actors Benjamin Gutman, Sydney Grant, Monica Giordano, and Michelle Finston, who performed an excerpt from Mr. Singh’s play "Kultar’s Mime."

Thanks to the generous support from the El-Hibri Foundation.

This monthly public series, convened by HDS Dean David N. Hempton, brings together a cross-disciplinary RPP Working Group of faculty, experts, graduate students, and alumni from across Harvard University and the local area to explore topics and cases in religions and the practice of peace.