Research

Research Forum

Based at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum provides a hub for members of the University to exchange scholarship aligned with our goals, and to develop skills relevant to our commitments to outreach and public engagement. The Forum is interdisciplinary , offering...

Current Research Projects

A variety of cutting-edge research projects are currently being conducted by researchers affiliated with the Cambridge Interfaith Programme. Religion & Global Challenges Initiative The Religion & Global Challenges Initiative seeks to generate tangible and sustainable solutions to worldwide...

Completed Projects

The Cambridge Interfaith Programme has a long history of innovative research and public engagement projects. You can read about a small selection of these at the links below. The Politics of Afterlives: Martyrdom and the Making of a Transnational Kurdish Political Community This project...

Academic Visitors

We welcome applications from established academics to become Visiting Scholars at the University of Cambridge. Where planned activities involve the academic research of inter-religious relations or other interfaith topics, applications made to the Faculty of Divinity's Research Committee will be...

Publications (selected)

Discover new and recent publications on interfaith relations and related topics. The selection of books and articles features work written and/or edited by researchers from the University of Cambridge, including authors based in the Faculty of Divinity and other members of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum.

Featured publication: Constitutional Intolerance: The Fashioning of the Other in Europe's Constitutional Repertoires

Latest news

Opportunity for postdoctoral researchers

13 May 2025

Finishing or finished your doctorate? Keen to pursue further research in the domain of inter-religious relations? Inviting expressions of interest The Faculty of Divinity is...

New: Can Muslims become part of “the West”?

5 May 2025

As publishers Klett Cotta ready a series of events in the German-speaking world, we offer an English summary of Eva Menasse’s foreword to Stellvertreter der Schuld (Subcontractors of Guilt).

Art for a Better World on show in Cambridge

26 March 2025

How can academics and artists collaborate for positive social change? That was the question behind Art for a Better World, an exhibition translating research about pressing...

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