Religion and Society | Harvard Divinity Bulletin

Descending Into the Underworld

A Q&A with Ahmad Greene-Hayes on his new book Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans. By Janan Graham-Russell

AI Is Not Truly Innovative

Compassionate interrogation offers an intervention to interrupt the creation of often invisible systems of inequity and violence in AI design and profiling. By Jenn Louie

Suprahuman but Inhuman Gods?

It is vitally important that religious studies scholars and theologians critically assess what it means to sustain conversation with AI. By Daniel H. Weiss And Darren Frey

AI Harms Are Not Ethically Inevitable

It is essential to recognize AI’s active role in exacerbating social ills and injustices so ethical guardrails can be crafted. By Richard J. Geruson

The fog of AI captures both the uncertain informational provenance around concepts of human flourishing and the confounding effects a transformative technology like AI has on these same concepts. By Swayam Bagaria

Meaning Making, Bodies, and AI

We are quick to simplify not only the human mind and consciousness, but also the importance of embodied social realities that make us who we are. By David Lamberth

The Human Story Is ‘I Love’

How do we hold on to our humanity in the face of revolutionary technological change? By James Prashant Fonseka

Solidarity and Mercy in Ukraine

For Ukrainian Catholic sisters and clerics, the war is a Calvary and resurrection narrative. By Chris Herlinger

Empire and Epistemicide

Precisely at the times when Jews and Christians were most experiencing the violence of the Roman Empire, some of Rome’s rulers were most vociferously claiming to bring and keep peace. By Annette Yoshiko Reed

Rethinking ‘Tribalism’

Learning from Indigenous ways of knowing and being might help all sides of the political spectrum to become less polarized and rancorous. By Devaka Premawardhana

Black Religion as Barrier and Balm

Black religious communities should be places of spiritual liberation for those who live with mental health challenges. By Monica A. Coleman

Converging Crises

In New York City, homelessness, immigration, and racism are converging to the point of a crisis. By Henry Love

Honoring Lives Ravaged by Addiction

Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead and Donovan X. Ramsey’s When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era offer powerful narratives in the context of communities beset by addiction epidemics. By Mara Willard

‘A Culture of Preparedness’

Jewish synagogues adopt new security strategies as antisemitic threats increase. By Robert Israel

How to Teach about Antisemitism

The five W’s—Who, What, Where, When, and Why—guide this teacher’s thinking about crucial questions to consider when educating about historical and contemporary antisemitism. By Joshua Krug

The Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future

Many traditional religious denominations are withering, but there can be liberation if we embrace refitting the old systems in new ways. By Sue Phillips