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Read more at: Interview: Esra Özyürek in Qantara.de

Interview: Esra Özyürek in Qantara.de

24 November 2023

The Arabic word Qantara (قنطرة) means bridge. Qantara.de provides journalistic coverage connecting the Islamic world with Germany. Qantara’s Claudia Mende interviewed CIP Academic Director Professor Esra Özyürek about her ethnographic research among Muslims in Germany. The interview is available in English and German. Here...


Read more at: Event report: The Harvest of Time
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Event report: The Harvest of Time

10 November 2023

Dr Alexandra S Ilieva, Teaching Associate of Buddhist Studies, reports from the launch of Dr Ankur Barua’s debut novel—held at the Faculty of Divinity on 8 November 2023: The intention was to read aloud from various chapters from Ankur’s book in an effort to spark discussion surrounding questions of religious identity...


Read more at: Religion & Water | Cambridge Inter Faith Week 2023
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Religion & Water | Cambridge Inter Faith Week 2023

7 November 2023

Researchers at the University of Cambridge are marking UK Inter Faith Week (12—19 November 2023) with a series of events exploring how religion influences our attitudes to and use of water. The theme was chosen in response to ongoing research funded by the Ofwat Innovation Fund and participating UK water companies. The...


Read more at: How hate solidifies—Özyürek in Zeit Online
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How hate solidifies—Özyürek in Zeit Online

3 November 2023

“Sie haben mehr als zehn Jahre untersucht, wie deutsche Muslime in den Fokus der Holocaust-Aufarbeitung gerückt sind. Warum gerade in Deutschland?” “You’ve spent more than a decade investigating how Germany Muslims became the focus in coming-to-terms-with the Holocaust. Why Germany?” So begins an extended interview between...


Read more at: From the archive: Just War?
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From the archive: Just War?

30 October 2023

In 2017, a New York Times opinion piece cited the work of CIP’s Dr Daniel Weiss to make a case that Christians should support gun control. The writer, Richard Parker, drew on an article Daniel had published in the Journal of Religious Ethics. As part of a wider body of work on religious responses to violence, Daniel was...


Read more at: Opportunity: Tackle Wiki bias in religious representation

Opportunity: Tackle Wiki bias in religious representation

19 October 2023

Researchers in the field of religious studies are invited to contribute their expertise to help identify authorial editorial bias across in different branches of Wikipedia. Existing research demonstrates that the problem is often one of absence. Background In 2021, research funded by the Wikimedia Foundation found that...


Read more at: Profile: Creative researcher—Dr Ankur Barua
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Profile: Creative researcher—Dr Ankur Barua

17 October 2023

Dr Ankur Barua (pictured, right) is Senior Lecturer in Hindu Studies at the University of Cambridge. Immersed in inter-religious relations all his life, he found new inspiration under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic: ankur.jpg The extra alone time prompted him to record and share versions of devotional chants he...


Read more at: Report: Symposium on Material approaches to inter-religious education
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Report: Symposium on Material approaches to inter-religious education

16 October 2023

On Monday 9 October, two dozen people gathered at the Faculty of Divinity to spend an afternoon thinking about materiality and religious education . Organised and co-convened by Dr Anastasia Badder (Divinity) and Dr Daniel Moulin-Stozek (Education), the event brought together researchers and practitioners, and a healthy...


Read more at: Report: Conflict resolution and interreligious encounter at the VHI

Report: Conflict resolution and interreligious encounter at the VHI

11 October 2023

In September 2023, four representatives of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme contributed to a four-day conference at the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry. The theme was Conflict resolution and interreligious encounter. Based at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, the VHI supports advanced study with a...


Read more at: Interview: Research leave in Tübingen (Daniel Weiss)
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Interview: Research leave in Tübingen (Daniel Weiss)

5 October 2023

Dr Daniel Weiss is now the longest-standing member of the CIP team, arriving in 2010 as the first Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies (now Senior Lecturer). Over the past two years, he has had three terms of research leave, spending time at the University of Tübingen as a visiting scholar, supported by a Humboldt...


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Interview: Esra Özyürek in Qantara.de

24 November 2023

The Arabic word Qantara (قنطرة) means bridge. Qantara.de provides journalistic coverage connecting the Islamic world with Germany. Qantara’s Claudia Mende interviewed CIP...

Event report: The Harvest of Time

10 November 2023

Dr Alexandra S Ilieva, Teaching Associate of Buddhist Studies, reports from the launch of Dr Ankur Barua’s debut novel—held at the Faculty of Divinity on 8 November 2023: The...

Religion & Water | Cambridge Inter Faith Week 2023

7 November 2023

Researchers at the University of Cambridge are marking UK Inter Faith Week (12—19 November 2023) with a series of events exploring how religion influences our attitudes to...