Religion
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Arthur Buttrick (1892–1980) | faculty member in 1955 | Professor of Christian Morals | |
| William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) | College 1798 | Unitarian leader | |
| Shubael Dummer (1636–1692) | College 1656 | Founder of the First Parish Congregational Church of York, the oldest church congregation in the state of Maine. Killed in the Candlemas Massacre. | |
| Karim Aga Khan IV (born 1936) | College 1958 | Spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili branch of Islam | |
| Bernard Francis Law (born 1931) | College 1953 | Cardinal Archbishop of Boston | |
| Aaron Lichtenstein (born 1933) | Phd English | Chief rabbi at yeshiva Har Etzion in Israel and son-in-law and disciple of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik | |
| Cotton Mather (1663–1728) | College 1678, A.M. 1681 | Minister, author | |
| Increase Mather (1639–1723) | College 1656 | Clergyman | |
| Theodore Parker (1810–1860) | Divinity | Unitarian leader | |
| William G. Sinkford (born 1946) | College 1968 | Unitarian Universalist leader | |
| Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815) | D.D. 1794 | English Radical Dissenting minister |
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Democracy and Republicanism in their best partisan utterances alike declare for human rights. Jefferson, the father of Democracy, Lincoln, the embodiment of Republicanism, and the Divine author of the religion on which true civilization rests, all proclaim the equal rights of all men.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)