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Read more at: New videos: sessions from April’s South Asia colloquium
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New videos: sessions from April’s South Asia colloquium

31 May 2023

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...


Read more at: Opportunity for postdoctoral researchers
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Opportunity for postdoctoral researchers

25 May 2023

Finishing or finished your doctorate? Keen to pursue further research in the domain of inter-religious relations? Inviting expressions of interest The Faculty of Divinity is inviting expressions of interest from recently completed or final stage doctoral students whom the Faculty might support in this year's round of...


Read more at: Jewish--Muslim musical encounters in Kentucky and Minnesota
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Jewish--Muslim musical encounters in Kentucky and Minnesota

20 April 2023

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...


Read more at: New publication: Modern Jewish philosophy and the politics of divine violence
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New publication: Modern Jewish philosophy and the politics of divine violence

18 April 2023

Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? Daniel Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as...


Read more at: New publication: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany
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New publication: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany

4 April 2023

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...


Read more at: Call for papers: “Religion - Conflict - Dialogue”
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Call for papers: “Religion - Conflict - Dialogue”

3 April 2023

In June 2023, students affiliated with the Cambridge Interfaith Programme are co-organising a symposium on the theme Religion – Conflict – Dialogue . Here is the call, addressed to students and recent graduates at the University of Cambridge: We are delighted to announce that the call for papers for the Cambridge...


Read more at: Event report: Workshop 3 in the Language Learning series
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Event report: Workshop 3 in the Language Learning series

31 March 2023

On March 27, 2023, we hosted the concluding workshop in our three-part Language Learning in/as Religious Education miniseries. Co-organiser Dr Anastasia Badder reports: This workshop was the largest event yet, featuring ten speakers from universities and educational institutions across the UK, Europe, and the US: Jo-Ann...


Read more at: Event report: Stories of boundary-crossing objects
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Event report: Stories of boundary-crossing objects

30 March 2023

On March 25, 2023, the Cambridge Interfaith Programme hosted ‘ Objects across religious boundaries: An interactive storytelling workshop ’ at Downing Place United Reformed Church. The event was part of the third Cambridge Festival. Organisers Dr Anastasia Badder and Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović report: Our aim was to think...


Read more at: Ramadan Mubarak - on seeing the moon
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Ramadan Mubarak - on seeing the moon

23 March 2023

Astronomy may not be an obvious topic for inter-faith or intra-faith dialogue. Yet it transpires to be fertile territory for an outsider to understand something of what Ramadan means among UK Muslims. Our Communications and Programme Manager, Dr Iona Hine, reflects: “Yesterday, I attempted something I’ve never tried before...


Read more at: Event report: Resonances from World Interfaith Harmony Week, 2023
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Event report: Resonances from World Interfaith Harmony Week, 2023

21 February 2023

The rhythms of the calendar year vary across religions, as also between nations, continents, and hemispheres. Since its establishment through UN resolution in 2010, World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) has provided a moment for connection between those calendars. At the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, we welcome this...


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As publishers Klett Cotta ready a series of events in the German-speaking world, we offer an English summary of Eva Menasse’s foreword to Stellvertreter der Schuld (Subcontractors of Guilt).

Art for a Better World on show in Cambridge

26 March 2025

How can academics and artists collaborate for positive social change? That was the question behind Art for a Better World, an exhibition translating research about pressing...

Interactive: Interfaith at the Cambridge Festival

17 March 2025

The 2025 Cambridge Festival opens this Wednesday (19 March) offering a mix of online, on-demand and in-person events covering all aspects of the world-leading research...