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On the impact of plurality

6 October 2021

As part of the 2021 Cambridge Alumni Festival, researchers from Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme came together online to discuss Religious Pluralism. Chairing the session, Dr Giles Waller (above right) asked: Is the presence of different religious groups in society a source of conflict or a resource for social flourishing...


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Alumni Festival: Religious Pluralism & Legacies of Empire

14 September 2021

This year's Cambridge Alumni Festival takes place online from 24 to 28 September 2021. Alumni and guests are welcome to join Cambridge Interfaith Programme on Tuesday 28th at 11am as we consider what our research reveals about the societal impact of religious pluralism. Religious pluralism: challenge or opportunity? During...


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New podcast episode: revolutionary afterlives

8 September 2021

Bhagat Singh (1907–1931) met his death at the hands of British colonial powers. His execution followed a lengthy and high-profile trial. Ninety years on, he is memorialised with statues, t-shirts and car bumper stickers. In episode three of the Religion & Global Challenges podcast, Marlene Schafers interviews Chris...


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Class of 2021

1 September 2021

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...


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£500,000 EU Award for a Research Network on Traces

29 July 2021

Together with his colleagues from several European universities, Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović (CIP Research Associate) has 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 Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice.


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New CIP Podcast on Religion and Global Challenges!

4 July 2021

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...


Read more at: New CIP videos: Research Seminar in Inter-religious Relations and a Cambridge Festival panel
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New CIP videos: Research Seminar in Inter-religious Relations and a Cambridge Festival panel

30 May 2021

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...


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Esra Ozyurek on Holocaust memory

Professor Esra Özyürek's talk on Holocaust memory for 'This is Germany'

30 May 2021

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 .


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New Publication: Theologies of Reading (Special Issue of CounterText)

28 April 2021

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.


Read more at: Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021 to be given by Dr Marlene Schäfers

Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021 to be given by Dr Marlene Schäfers

28 April 2021

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 and 27 May and 3 June 2021.


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