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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…

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…