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Read more at: Spirituality and Mental Health

Spirituality and Mental Health

25 January 2022

Visiting Scholar Glen Milstein (CUNY) addressed the Faculty of Divinity's Inter-Religious Relations seminar in October 2021 , generating fertile discussion alongside respondent Dr Andrew Davison. Those interested in Dr Milstein's ongoing work in this domain may be pleased to hear that he is one of four speakers at the 2022...

Read more at: Marking UK Holocaust Memorial Day
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Marking UK Holocaust Memorial Day

25 January 2022

27 January is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. It is also UK Holocaust Memorial Day, remembering the six million Jews and others murdered by the Nazis, as well as the victims of other genocides. Cambridge Interfaith Programme commends attention to the following events...

Read more at: Cambridge Interfaith Ambassador heads to New York
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Cambridge Interfaith Ambassador heads to New York

25 January 2022

Dr Marie Chabbert is a Research Fellow attached to St John's College. Her research sits at a disciplinary crossing point, between French Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. She will be sharing some of her work at the Inter-Religious Relations seminar during Lent term. Dr Chabbert is also an Interfaith Ambassador...

Read more at: Opinion: Armenia feels vulnerable going into talks with its "rediscovered" neighbour
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Opinion: Armenia feels vulnerable going into talks with its "rediscovered" neighbour

14 January 2022

Dr Hrag Papazian is one of seven Visiting Scholars participating in our Turkish-Armenian Relations project (funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation). Writing for Open Democracy (12 Jan 2022), he identifies how recent conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has affected Armenia's take on new talks with Turkey. Post-war...

Read more at: Waiting for Elijah in paperback
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Waiting for Elijah in paperback

15 December 2021

This week we welcome the publication of CIP associate Dr Safet HadziMuhamedovic's monograph Waiting for Elijah in paperback. Based on extensive fieldwork in Bosnia, the book focuses on the harvest feast of Elijah's Day. The paperback edition includes a new foreword from Dr Marko Živković (University of Alberta). Reviewers...

Read more at: Faith and Climate Change - new article
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Faith and Climate Change - new article

7 December 2021

Dr Tobias Mueller and Professor Esra Özyürek have published an opinion piece arguing that “ Religious communities can make the difference in winning the fight against climate change ”. Building on Dr Mueller’s ethnographic research focused on Extinction Rebellion and as an observer at COP26, and feeding into our Religion...

Read more at: Esra Ozyurek in Competing Memories debate
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Esra Ozyurek in Competing Memories debate

29 November 2021

On Wednesday 1 December 2021, Professor Esra Özyürek joins an online panel discussion about Holocaust remembrance and colonialism. Hosted by the German Historical Institute Washington , and with co-panellists from the USA, France and Germany, the discussion is intended to reflect on international differences in public...

Read more at: Jewish-Muslim Alliances in company--with DERVIS HIZARCI
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Jewish-Muslim Alliances in company--with DERVIS HIZARCI

19 November 2021

On 16 November , during UK Inter-Faith Week , the Inter-Religious Relations seminar welcomed Derviş Hızarcı , Chairman of the Berlin-based Kreuzberger Initiative against Antisemitism – KigA e.V. Hızarcı spoke in conversation with Professor Esra Özyürek [ EO ], whose own recent research explores the topic of empathy and...

Read more at: Call for Papers: Good and Evil in Islamic Discourse
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Call for Papers: Good and Evil in Islamic Discourse

12 November 2021

In collaboration with the Doha-based research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Cambridge Interfaith Programme is pleased to invite research papers on the topic: The conceptual ground of good and evil in Islamic discourse: a fecund domain for ethical reflections A closed 3-day seminar will be held in Doha...

Read more at: Seminars this Autumn - in Cambridge and via Zoom
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Seminars this Autumn - in Cambridge and via Zoom

12 October 2021

As we enter Michaelmas term, we bring news of three seminar series in Cambridge: Later this month, we resume our Interreligious Relations seminar series at the new time of 2:15pm on Tuesdays. The first speaker this term is Professor Glen Milstein (CUNY) who will share plans to extend his research in the field of religion...

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Call for papers: Seeing Muslimness

28 March 2024

An interdisciplinary conference for scholars, researchers, and practitioners, co-convened by Madiha Noman—a PhD student in the Faculty of English and affiliate of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum—and Abdul Sabur Kidwai of King’s College London. Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2024.

Event report: Celebrating South Asia’s sonic spaces

18 March 2024

Earlier this month, Hina Khalid and Ankur Barua co-hosted a Mehfil— a “gathering to entertain or praise”, to extend students’ exposure to South Asian soundscapes. The event...

Exploring religion and economic development

15 March 2024

In January, Professor Sriya Iyer began work on the Social Consequences of Religion initiative, a multistrand programme from the Templeton Religion Trust. Iyer is leading...

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