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Read more at: Upcoming online lecture: ‘Scripture and Violence: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives’

Upcoming online lecture: ‘Scripture and Violence: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives’

7 October 2020

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...


Read more at: RESEARCH: Book now to attend CIP's Webinars in October & November 2020

RESEARCH: Book now to attend CIP's Webinars in October & November 2020

15 September 2020

CIP Research Seminars go online with talks by Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, Dr Jörg Haustein and Dr Justin Meggitt


Read more at: NEWS: Press Release: Scripture and Violence book out today

NEWS: Press Release: Scripture and Violence book out today

1 September 2020

Scripture and Violence, edited by Dr Julia Snyder and Dr Daniel H. Weiss, is now out and available at a bookseller near you.


Read more at: RESEARCH: Julian Göpffarth and Esra Özyürek on Muslim Public Intellectuals in the German Far Right

RESEARCH: Julian Göpffarth and Esra Özyürek on Muslim Public Intellectuals in the German Far Right

15 July 2020

See the recent article by Julian Göpffarth and Professor Esra Özyürek, 'Spiritualizing Reason, Rationalizing Spirit: Muslim Public Intellectuals in the German Far Right'.


Read more at: NEWS: Professor Esra Özyürek Interviewed on Hagia Sophia

NEWS: Professor Esra Özyürek Interviewed on Hagia Sophia

15 July 2020

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...


Read more at: NEWS: Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage Goes Online with Success
NEWS: Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage Goes Online with Success

NEWS: Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage Goes Online with Success

15 July 2020

CIP Research Associate, Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, has convened with his SOAS colleagues the first online summer school in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage.


Read more at: RESEARCH: Professor Irit Dekel and Professor Esra Özyürek on Antisemitism in Germany

RESEARCH: Professor Irit Dekel and Professor Esra Özyürek on Antisemitism in Germany

13 July 2020

Who is recognised in Germany as entitled to speak publicly about the state's colonial, racist and antisemitic heritage?


Read more at: NEWS: Entangled and Disentangled Otherings project awarded DAAD-Cambridge funding
NEWS: Entangled and Disentangled Otherings project awarded DAAD-Cambridge funding

NEWS: Entangled and Disentangled Otherings project awarded DAAD-Cambridge funding

13 July 2020

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.


Read more at: RESEARCH: Contagious Crowds: Religious Gatherings in the Age of Coronavirus

RESEARCH: Contagious Crowds: Religious Gatherings in the Age of Coronavirus

13 July 2020

Professor Esra Özyürek and Dr Michal Kravel-Tovi reflect on religious gatherings in the age of coronavirus


Read more at: NEWS: Shared Sacred Landscapes project awarded Public Engagement Starter Fund
NEWS: Shared Sacred Landscapes project awarded Public Engagement Starter Fund

NEWS: Shared Sacred Landscapes project awarded Public Engagement Starter Fund

13 July 2020

Public Engagement Starter Fund grant awarded to Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović and CIP.


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