Harvard Divinity School

The opening keynote address of the “The Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture” conference was delivered by Nigel Savage, president and CEO of Hazon.

“The Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture” aims to bring together farmers, religious and spiritual leaders, and academics, respectively, to join in a robust and stimulating discussion about the spirit of sustainable agriculture, delineating its past, celebrating and investigating its present, and theorizing its future.

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Martin Luther did more than just serve as a catalyst for the Reformation. By nailing his 95 theses to the door of a Wittenberg, Germany, church in 1517, he became the world's first mass media figure and launched a new form of theological writing, argues University of St. Andrews Professor Andrew Pettegree.

Andrew Pettegree is Professor Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of a number of books on the Reformation and, more recently, the history of communication, including Reformation and the Culture of Communication, The Book in the Renaissance, and The Invention of News. In 2015, The Invention of News won the Goldsmith Prize of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Dr. Leah Gunning Francis discusses “A Boy, A Wrestler and the Racialized Imaginiation: (En)Countering Narrative in Ferguson and Beyond.”

Rev. Dr. David Anderson Hooker presents on “Transforming Historical Harms: Performing Historical and Spiritual Narratives to Transform Race, Privilege, Fear, and Faith.”

The event will be moderated by Catherine Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America.

Co-sponsored by the Racial Justice and Healing Initiative at Harvard Divinity School. With generous support from the El-Hibri Foundation.

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Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and associate dean for faculty and academic affairs, discusses her recent publication, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet.

David Eckel, Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University, and Mark D. Jordan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at HDS, serve as respondents.

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This lecture and performance by visiting artists features musicologist Dr. Hilary Finchum-Sung, Seoul National University, and musicians Lee Tae-Baek, Yi Ji-Young, Won Wan-Chul, Lee Suk-Joo, and Lim Hyeun-Bin.

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After five centuries of marginalization under the Chosŏn dynasty, Korean Buddhism appeared ready for a return to the mainstream of Korea’s religious culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Donald Baker, Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, explores how modernization, particularly the modern concept of religion introduced by Christians, impacts the transition.

This year's Ahnkook Lecture on Korean Buddhism is part of the series "Religious Identities in Asia," co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Korea Institute, and the Asia Center.

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Marianne Moyaert explores the opportunities, challenges, and problems with liturgy in comparative theology the 2015–16 Comparative Theology Lecture.

Marianne Moyaert is the chair of comparative theology in the Faculty of Theology at VU Amsterdam and guest lecturer of post-holocaust theology in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at KU Leuven.

This lecture took place on March 3, 2016.

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The texts of the world's major religions have impact throughout all of human experience. Join professors from across Harvard as they discuss those texts during an event coinciding with the launch of HDS's new online course, "World Religions Through Their Scriptures."

The course is Harvard Divinity School's second massive open online course offered through the edX platform. Led by HDS Senior Lecturer Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project, the course will be taught by six faculty members and launched March 1, 2016.

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Associate Professor of New Testament Giovanni Bazzana discusses his recent publication with two respondents. The respondents will be Shaye J.D. Cohen, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University; and Lawrence Wills, Ethelbert Talbot Professor of Biblical Studies at the Episcopal Divinity School.

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Climate change is a stark reminder of our thoroughgoing interconnectedness. Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi and Dr. Julie A. Nelson explore Buddhist resources that can help us to care for the earth and all of its inhabitants, and how these resources can be brought to bear in the most effective ways.

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