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A short German-language introduction to the interfaith practice of Scriptural Reasoning by Cambridge researcher Dr Julia Snyder has now been published.Scriptural Reasoning brings people of different faith traditions together to read scriptures and build understanding. CIP was a leader in the early development of the practice, which has now gained w…

The Faculty of Divinity, West Road, Cambridge, invites applications for a new fixed-term appointment as Communications and Programme Manager (Grade 7) in the Cambridge Interfaith Programme for two years to start as soon as possible. The Cambridge Interfaith Programme (CIP) seeks an enthusiastic and creative Communications and Programme Manager to j…

CIP Seminar in Inter-religious Relations continues online in the Easter Term of 2020/21, with talks by Professor Ayala Fader, Professor Niloofar Haeri and Professor Jackie Feldman. 29 April 2021, 15:00 BST - On Hidden Heretics: A Conversation with Professor Ayala Fader14 May 2021, 13:30 BST - On Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: A Conversation w…

Cambridge in Your Classroom is new joint project by the Faculty of Divinity and the Faculty of Education Religious Studies PGCE course. Aimed a students aged 14-18, the project features short video lectures by experts from the Faculty of Divinity, who consider some of the big questions of religion, philosophy and ethics, such as: What can different…

Call for Research ProposalsEarly career researchers (within 4 years of PhD degree) and advanced level PhD candidates are invited to submit proposals for projects on Armenian-Turkish relations with a contemporary focus.Applications across social sciences and humanities are eligible, such as political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, mode…

Professor Esra Özyürek and Dr Ezgi Guner will give a talk on 'Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Multiracial Fantasies of Pax Ottomana in Turkey'for the Seminar Series: Religion, Race and Racism - Transnational Conversations on 22 March 2021. Their talk is part of a panel part of a panel on 'The Crescent, Colour and Capitalism: Migration and Int…

2:00pm-3:30pm on Tuesday 30 MarchBook your free ticket here. Seven researchers, seven images and seven presentations – each seven minutes long… This experimental panel invites the audience to engage with visual research of interfaith relations and shared religious environments by producing collaborative ‘chain poems’ to be used as prompts in the Q&…

Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme (CIP), University of Cambridge, invites applications for the Academic Summer School in Inter-Faith Relations, to be delivered online from 9 to 20 August 2021.For further details and application instructions, please visit https://www.interfaith.cam.ac.uk/cip-summer-school-2021.An early registration discount of 20%is a…

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…