Recalling the ‘Brave Spaces’ for LGBTQ+ History Month

October 27, 2020

Believing that a month should be dedicated to the celebration and teaching of gay and lesbian history, Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, gathered other educators and community leaders to discuss the issue in 1994. The group selected October as LGBTQ+ History Month because public schools are in session and traditions including Comings Out Day occur that month.... Read more about Recalling the ‘Brave Spaces’ for LGBTQ+ History Month

Video: Fred Moten: Note on a Blue Note in The Gospel of Barbecue

October 27, 2020

Fred Moten, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, discussed a poem called "On Listening to the Two-Headed Lady Blow Her Horn," which is from Honorée Fanonne Jeffers's extraordinary collection, The Gospel of Barbecue.... Read more about Video: Fred Moten: Note on a Blue Note in The Gospel of Barbecue

Professor Mayra Rivera. Photo: Courtesy Mayra Rivera

Harvard Portrait: Mayra Rivera

October 26, 2020

“Growing up, I always loved literature and the philosophical questions it asked about the world. Religion was the other discourse that I knew was interested in those questions,” said Mayra Rivera, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at HDS.

A 'Public Enlightenment': Harvard Divinity School Begins New Program in Religion and Public Life

October 26, 2020

Professor Jacob Olupona said he thought the new Religion and Public Life program, which includes a public speaker series that will feature journalists, historians, economists, and other scholars, might lead to “public enlightenment” about the centrality of religion to a broad range of civic issues.

Harvard Professors Discuss Role of Religion in the 2020 Election at Divinity School Lecture

October 23, 2020

"Trump's greatest effect on religion has been to privilege the voices of white evangelicals, who have supported him in huge numbers because of their hope that he will restore something that they feel has been lost—namely, the white, Protestant identity of the United States. In contrast, both Jim Kloppenberg and E.J. Dionne noted that religious pluralism has strengthened American democracy," said HDS Professor Catherine Brekus.

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The Campaign for (White) Christian America

As the 2020 presidential election nears, Lauren R. Kerby, lecturer on religious studies at HDS and the education specialist for the Religious Literacy Project, and Dartmouth College Professor Jeff Sharlet discuss the politics of white evangelicals in the U.S. today.

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