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2022-23 Yang Visiting Scholar Dr. Heather Mellquist Lehto

Video: World Christianity, Christianity in the West: Continuities and Differences

July 28, 2023

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at the Harvard Divinity School led a online conversation with the 2022-23 Yang Visiting Scholars, Dr. Heather Mellquist Lehto, and Dr. Ashok Kumar Mocherla. This conversation showed us how perspectives on the global scene might confirm, yet also challenge, how we think about Christianity and the study of Christianity here in the United States.... Read more about Video: World Christianity, Christianity in the West: Continuities and Differences

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Video: The Power of Mind: A talk with Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche

June 22, 2023

During an event hosted by the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School, Khentrul Rinpoche, a Non-Sectarian Master of Tibetan Buddhism, spoke about how to harness the potential of mind to transform unwanted conditions into positive circumstances. When we stop our hate of suffering, we learn how to befriend adversity and find strength in the midst of all that we experience. Not only does this transform our own lives, but it gives us the capacity to better serve others. By cultivating greater compassion and reducing oversensitivity we can effectively help others with the challenges that they face.... Read more about Video: The Power of Mind: A talk with Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche

The Program for the Evolution of Spirituality supports the scholarly study of emerging spiritual movements, marginalized spiritualities, and the innovative edges of established religious traditions.

Video: Virtual Colloquium on Gender Dynamics in Intentional Communities

August 16, 2021
On July 27, 2021, the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality hosted the next colloquium in its series on power dynamics and accountability in alternative and emerging spiritual and cultural organizations. For this event, the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality featured Dr. Maria Burschel and Crystal Byrd Farmer to discuss gender dynamics in intentional communities.... Read more about Video: Virtual Colloquium on Gender Dynamics in Intentional Communities
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Video: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

April 20, 2021

Where do our ideas about how the economy works, and our views on economic policy, come from? Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets, among economists as well as many ordinary citizens, is a form of religion. The foundational transition in thinking about what we now call economics, beginning in the eighteenth century, was decisively shaped by the hotly contended lines of religious thought at that time within the English-speaking Protestant world.

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