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Harvard Divinity School and the Center for the Study of World Religions host this panel discussion to inaugurate the second year of the CSWR's “Transcendence and Transformation” initiative, hosted by Director Charles M. Stang. The panel features the initiative's newest post-doctoral fellows and research associates as well as discussions of the history of “shamanic” healing practices in Central Asia; how best to teach embodied contemplative practices in the classroom; early Christian controversies over allegorical interpretation of the Bible, and universal salvation; the neuroscience of contemplative Christian prayer; and the "Great Resurrection" in Nizari Isma'ilism.
This event took place on October 3, 2022.
Learn more: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/
Full transcript: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/10/3/video-transcendence-and-transformation-take-two
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