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Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović: 'Spatio-temporal proximities: Bosnian Dinaric karst after unhoming ruptures'Dr Justin Meggitt: 'Starting from a different place: radical dissent and the reception of Islam among early Quakers and Unitarians'

For Lent term 2021, we are continuing the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme (CIP) Research Seminar series online. Chaired by Dr Giles Waller, these 40 minute talks will explore a wide range of inter-faith topics from from multi-disciplinary perspectives. There will be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions after each talk.Join us by registerin…

The Indian Religions Research Seminar in the Faculty of Divinity brings you an exciting lineup of speakers in the Lent Term. The framing theme for the talks will be 'Borderlines Across “Hindu” and “Non-Hindu” Worlds'. To access these events, follow the provided Zoom links. January 25, 2.15–4.15 pm (GMT)Dr Mou Banerjee, University of Wisconsin–Madis…

This Research Seminar subdivides into termly seminars for specialists in Islam, Judaism, and the religious traditions of India. Speakers may have premodern or contemporary interests, and may present papers on the basis of a very wide range of intellectual interests and disciplinary traditions. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FACULTY OF DIVINITYIndian Reli…

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD studentship for Making British Islam Across Generations (Faculty of Divinity - Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative)In January 2021, applications were invited for an AHRC CDA doctoral studentship offered by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, to start in the October or…

On 17 September 2020, Dr Safet HažiMuhamedović, CIP Research Associate in Inter-Faith Relations, gave the inaugural talk for the Xenia Series: Seminars in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage. This is not another academic conversation about the coronavirus, yet it may as well start from the utter disorientation experienced by some of us a…

The 2020 Annual Beach Lecture at Newbold College will be delivered this year by three researchers from the Divinity Faculty’s Cambridge Inter-faith Programme: Julia Snyder, Daniel Weiss, and Omar Shaukat. The talk will focus on the ‘Scripture and Violence’ project currently based at CIP, which is also the subject of a recent book from Routledge.The…

CIP Research Seminars go online with talks by Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, Dr Jörg Haustein and Dr Justin Meggitt CIP Research Seminars normally take place in the Faculty of Divinity on Friday afternoons with tea and cake, but this term we will be going online (so remember to bring your own tea and cake!). Chaired by Dr Giles Waller, these 40 minute …

Scripture and Violence, edited by Dr Julia Snyder and Dr Daniel H. Weiss, is now out and available at a bookseller near you.PRESS RELEASE:Scriptures rarely a significant motivating factor behind violence, say researchersActive engagement with ‘difficult’ passages in Qur’an and Bible could help generate creative solutions to present-day problems, ne…

See the recent article by Julian Göpffarth and Professor Esra Özyürek, 'Spiritualizing Reason, Rationalizing Spirit: Muslim Public Intellectuals in the German Far Right'. 'As these intellectuals combine the tropes of German nationhood and European civilisation, the far right builds connections with the growing Muslim demographic in Germany', note G…

Hagia Sophia, which featured in the cityscape of Istanbul as a church, a mosque and a museum, has been 'reverted' to a mosque by presidential decree on 10 July 2020. Professor Esra Özyürek, in an interview for a Religion Media Centre article, considers the building’s international significance and the timing of the decision.

CIP Research Associate, Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, has convened with his SOAS colleagues the first online summer school in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage.The coronavirus lockdown raised various questions for the team organising the 2020 SOAS Summer School in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage. Previous courses relied on …

Who is recognised in Germany as entitled to speak publicly about the state's colonial, racist and antisemitic heritage?Professor Irit Dekel and Professor Esra Özyürek consider the ramifications of the disparagement of Achille Mbembe and other cases. Read their article 'Perfides Ablenkungsmanöver', published in German language in Zeit Online. 

Professor Esra Özyürek has been awarded the DAAD-Cambridge funding for a three-year-long series of workshops titled Entangled and Disentangled Otherings: Critical Perspectives on the Relationship of Antisemitism and Racism.Three planned workshops will build on a workshop organized by Center for Anti-Semitism Research in Technical University, Intern…

Professor Esra Özyürek and Dr Michal Kravel-Tovi reflect on religious gatherings in the age of coronavirus"Governments have used considerable power to restrict the freedom of their citizens as they seek to implement successful public health policy in response to the COVID—19 pandemic. One particular area of consequence is the way in which the tempo…