skip to content

Cambridge Interfaith Programme

 
"Prince and cool girl" - hand-drawn stick figures with Hebrew speech bubble and English caption.

Coordinated jointly by Dr Anastasia Badder (Cambridge) and Dr Jo-Ann Myers (Leo Baeck College), this webinar continues conversations about learning religion in/through language.

Bringing together anthropologists, education researchers, and practitioners working in diverse settings, the discussion will explore how religious communities draw on language as a semiotic resource aimed at specific goals, and how different methodologies can reveal aspects of the aims, processes, factors, and outcomes of sacred language learning and use.

Potential questions for this roundtable session include:

  • What distinguishes a religious language from a ‘mundane’ one?
  • What definitional issues emerge when studying language practices in religious settings? 
  • What are the ethical challenges of researching religious language learning?
  • What can the learning of religious languages reveal about language and literacy teaching and learning more broadly?

This session will be moderated by Yomna Helmy, Teaching and Outreach Associate at the Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies. The discussants will include Dr Leslie Moore (Ohio State University), and Adel Mozammel (Director, Darul Ihsan School), as well as the coordinators.

A recording of the first session is available to watch again on YouTube.

To attend this online event

This online event will take place on Zoom and is free to join. Please register in advance (via Eventbrite) to receive the necessary information.


This event is part of World Interfaith Harmony Week.

A third session is planned for 27 March 2023, with optional on site attendance (to be confirmed). 

Date: 
Thursday, 2 February, 2023 - 15:45
Event location: 
Online (Zoom)

Latest news

Profile: Religious studies at the 2025 Alumni Festival

9 July 2025

Attending the Cambridge Alumni Festival this September? Our team has plenty of options lined up— On Friday 26 September we’re offering a rolling programme of workshops...

Event report: Whose knowledge is it?

9 July 2025

A student-led decolonisation conference On Tuesday 17 June 2025, the Faculty of Education hosted Whose Knowledge Is It? – a student-led decolonisation conference organised by...

Call for papers: Translating Maimonides

8 July 2025

Dr Anastasia Badder has teamed up with academics in Southampton, London & Cambridge to host this year’s virtual conference with the European Association of Jewish Studies. The conference centres around the theme “Translating Maimonides” and the call draws attention to Maimonides’ resonance among diverse religious and non-religious communities.