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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 reflectionsA closed 3-day seminar will be held in Doha from 5-7 October, 2022. Dr Fe…

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 and mental health. We will a…

As part of the 2021 Cambridge Alumni Festival, researchers from Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme came together online to discuss Religious Pluralism. Chairing the session, Dr Giles Waller (above right) asked: Is the presence of different religious groups in society a source of conflict or a resource for social flourishing?What is conflict? Starting …

This year's Cambridge Alumni Festival takes place online from 24 to 28 September 2021. Alumni and guests are welcome to join Cambridge Interfaith Programme on Tuesday 28th at 11am as we consider what our research reveals about the societal impact of religious pluralism. Religious pluralism: challenge or opportunity?During this 50-minute panel event…

Bhagat Singh (1907–1931) met his death at the hands of British colonial powers. His execution followed a lengthy and high-profile trial. Ninety years on, he is memorialised with statues, t-shirts and car bumper stickers. In episode three of the Religion & Global Challenges podcast, Marlene Schafers interviews Chris Moffatt, author of India’s revolu…

A cohort of 15 participants from five continents completed our online Academic Summer School in interfaith relations. Over the course of two weeks in August 2021, the group journeyed through hell and into outer space, from the comfort of their own homes.Content covered key Religion and Global Challenges themes such as environmentalism. A workshop w…

We are delighted to announce that CIP Research Associate, Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović and his colleagues from several European universities have won a COST Action award funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, worth a total of £500,000, for a four-year research network project titled TRACTS: Traces as Research Agenda for Climate …

We are excited to launch 'Religion and Global Challenges', a new podcast of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, which explores how religious narratives and ideas, practices and experiences inform some of the most crucial challenges facing our world today.Click here to access the 'Religion and Global Challenges' podcast.The podcast is part of CIP's …

Check out the recordings of our recent events, including a Cambridge Festival 2021 panel and three talks for the CIP Research Seminar in Inter-religious Relations. 12 February 2021 Dr Elisabeth Becker, 'The Abrahamic Stranger: Jews, Muslims and the Question of Europe’A presentation given by Dr Elisabeth Becker for the CIP Research Seminar in Inter-…

Professor Esra Özyürek recently spoke for the initiative 'This is Germany' about her research on Holocaust memory and the Muslim minority in Germany.To view the video on YouTube, follow this link. 

Theologies of Reading: Positions and Responses, the new issue of CounterText, edited by Laura McCormick Kilbride, Simone Kotva and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, has been published. CounterTextfocuses on contemporary literary and post-literary cultures, publishing articles, interviews and creative work centred on the study of literature and its 21st-cen…

Dr Marlene Schäfers will be giving the prestigious Evans-Pritchard Lectures at the University of Oxford this year. The lecture series is titled ‘Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women and the Dilemmas of Representation in Contemporary Turkey’ and will take place at 5.00 pm, via the Teams platform, on 13 May, 20 May, 27 May and 3 June 2021. In 1998 All S…

CIP is delighted to invite you to theinternational symposium 'The Khiḍr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters & Shared Sacred Landscapes ' on 6 May 2021, online from 10:30 to 18:30 BST. During the symposium, we will inaugurate 'Shared Sacred Landscapes', an exhibition of photography. Further information is available at  https://www.shared…

Professor Esra Özyürek, CIP Academic Director, has recently joined Dr Alexa Hagerty and Dr Natalie Jones in a Mind Over Chatter podcast to discuss what the future of fairness, justice, and equality should look like, and how their research can help to bring about a fairer society. Click here to listen to this fascinating conversation. 

Why do Germans convert to Islam? How do Muslims become German? And, what are the recent directions of Holocaust education programmes in Germany? In 'Becoming Muslim', an interview for the Lent Term issue of CAM, the Cambridge Alumni Magazine, Professor Esra Özyürek reflects on her ethnographic research of religion, culture and the politics of ident…