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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…

Public Engagement Starter Fund grant awarded to Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović and CIP. Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović and CIP have been awarded a Public Engagement Starter Fund grant for a project titled Shared Sacred Landscapes: Interfaith Dialogues in Cambridge. Safet will develop an exhibition of anthropological photography, a public symposium and an i…

A grant has been awarded to Dr Julia Snyder, Dr Daniel Weiss, and CIP to equip religious and interfaith leaders to address common concerns about religion, scripture, and violence.A variety of online and print resources are being developed for leaders of religious and interfaith organizations to use in training their own members to grapple with scri…

Prof Esra Özyürek has been announced as the new Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths & Shared Values & CIP Academic DirectorProfessor Esra Özyürek has accepted election to the Sultan Qaboos Professorship of Abrahamic Faiths and Shared Values from 1 October 2020.  She is joining the Faculty of Divinity from the London School of Economics, whe…

Research Seminar in Inter-Religious Relations - Prof Wendy Pullan 'Identity Museums: The Secular-Sacred Institutionalisation of Conflict Memories' Friday, 7 February 2020 1.30-3.30pm in the Lightfoot RoomYou are warmly invited to attend an Inter-Religious Relations Research Seminar (preceded by a sandwich lunch in the Selwyn Room at 1pm).Prof Wendy…

Research Seminar in Inter-Religious Relations - Dr Simone Kotva 'An Enquiry Concerning Non-Human Understanding: Crossing Species by Crossing Disciplines' with Rev Dr Tim Jenkins as Respondent Friday, 24 January 2020 1.30-3.30pm in the Lightfoot Room You are warmly invited to attend an Inter-Religious Relations Research Seminar (preceded by a sa…

Research Seminar in Inter-Religious Relations - Dr Jessica Frazier 'Doing Religious Studies with Gadamer: A Journey from Cultural Language, to Spiritual Bildung to Global Destiny' Friday, 17 January 2020 1.30-3.30pm in the Lightfoot RoomYou are warmly invited to attend the first seminar of the Inter-Religious Relations Research Seminar Series held …

Research Seminar in Inter-Religious Relations - Dr Elizabeth Fowden 'From Deucalion's Flood to Abrahamic Rain-Prayers: Approaches to Sacred Space in Athens Friday, 8 November 2019 1.30-3.30pm in the Lightfoot RoomDr Fowden uses the complex pagan, Christian, Muslim and contemporary history of the Olympieion precinct to examine ideological conflict…