Harvard College was built around a sturdy religious core. Its Puritan founders, “dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches,” dedicated their new school to supplying an intelligent one.

Harvard Divinity School announced last week it was pausing its Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative, a program that focused on Israel-Palestine as a case study. On Wednesday (April 2), it cut the ...

Ellie H. Ashby ’24, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Adams House. Her column, “A Deeper Dive Into Harvard’s Faith,” runs tri-weekly on Fridays. There are a few debates ...

Ellie H. Ashby ’24, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Adams House. Her column, “A Deeper Dive Into Harvard’s Faith,” runs tri-weekly on Fridays. The geographic epicenter ...

(RNS) — Diana Eck, longtime Harvard University comparative religion professor and founder of its Pluralism Project, is retiring on July 1. After concluding her last class in April, Eck, who also was a ...

Academics advocating a rigorous religious curriculum in higher education criticized Harvard University’s recent decision to not add a religion course to its requirements after it had been considering ...