Faculty and Research

Teddy Hickman-Maynard

Humans of HDS: Prepared for This Moment

February 24, 2022

“One of the things you realize when you start to do social justice work is that you don’t get anywhere alone. Without community and partnership, you can’t move the needle on any area of community empowerment, development, ant-discriminatory, or anti-oppressive work in order to make structural change that alleviates burdens on the marginalized.”—Teddy Hickman-Maynard, Associate Dean for Ministry Studies at HDS... Read more about Humans of HDS: Prepared for This Moment

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Harvard Takes a New Trip into the World of Psychedelic Drugs

February 23, 2022
"That's a pretty good sign, that there is now a formal psychedelics research center connected to Harvard Medical School. And what's happening at Harvard Divinity School is incredible. They are so into psychedelics these days," says Rick Doblin, an adviser at the Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Enduring Memories of Toni Morrison

February 23, 2022
On the eve of what would have been the late novelist Toni Morrison’s 91st birthday, HDS Professor Davíd Carrasco shared stories from his 32-year friendship with the Nobel laureate during a remote lecture hosted by the Harvard Extension Alumni Association Midwest Chapter.
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Dr. Jocelyne Cesari on Religion and Nationalism

February 21, 2022

Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, discusses her recent book, "We God's People: the Politics of Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations," which is based on five years of work with a unique international research team that has produced new data to anticipate religious conflicts in Syria, Turkey, China, India, and Russia.

 

 

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Jon Levenson, Inheriting Abraham—Ten Years On

February 17, 2022
Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at HDS, discusses his book, Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, published 10 years ago, and the figure of Abraham and how his story has been interpreted by various religious traditions.

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