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On 3 May 2023, the Faculty of Divinity hosted the inaugural lecture of Professor Esra Özyürek, Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths and Shared Values and the Academic Director of Cambridge Interfaith Programme. Introducing the lecture, Professor Richard Rex (a historian of the English Reformation) characterised...

In April 2023, Dr Ankur Barua and Hina Khalid convened an online series on the topic of Inter-religious relations in South Asia, together with Dr Pranav Prakash (Christ Church, Oxford). Zoom recordings from four sessions are now available to watch again on the Faculty of Divinity YouTube channel. Learn more about each...

Spring 2023 takes musicologist Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz on tour with visits to Centre College (a small Protestant-foundation liberal arts college in Danville, KY) and a two-day residency at Carleton College, Minnesota. Accompanying her are musicians Mostafa Benhmad and Abdallah Hachami, travelling from France and Morocco...

Published on 4 April 2023, Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany is an ethnographic study comparing the intents and consequences of education programmes among Turkish- and Arab-background Muslims living in Germany. The book is Professor Esra Özyürek's third monograph, and the...