Research Activities
- Religion and Politics Seminar: Local and Global
- This is open to the public.
The Seminar on Religion and Politics is an interdisciplinary collaboration among the Weatherhead Center, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Harvard Divinity School. The goal of the seminar is to critically explore the intersection of religion, law, and politics on the local and global levels. Its ongoing themes include the examination of political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of religion and public life: the effects of political and constitutional systems on religious liberty, the relations between religion and modernity, religion and gender equality, religion in international affairs, and the challenges of inter-religious relations. In 2011–2012, a series of presentations by invited speakers will analyze religious thought and religious practice across different communities and societies.
The seminar is chaired by J. Bryan Hehir (Harvard Kennedy School), Ofrit Liviatan (Department of Government), Noah Feldman (Harvard Law School), Nancy Rosenblum (Department of Government), and Monica Duffy Toft (Harvard Kennedy School).
Current Academic Year
Past Seminar Schedules
- Field of Interest: Comparative Politics
- Seminar Chair(s)
- Hehir, J. Bryan
- Senior Adviser; Faculty Associate. Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School; Secretary for Health and Social Services, Archdiocese of Boston.
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Rosenblum, Nancy L.
- Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Toft, Monica Duffy
- Faculty Associate. Associate Professor of Public Policy; Director, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Feldman, Noah
- Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School.; Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School.
- Contact Information
- Liviatan, Ofrit
- Associate. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.