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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“This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement—that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it—that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.”
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