Inspired by Dr Anastasia Badder’s research on Jewish supplementary education in Luxembourg and the interplay between literacy, citizenship, and community boundaries, CIP worked with Leo Baeck College to host a series of conversations at the intersection of language learning and religious education. The discussions demonstrated significant overlap between Muslim and Jewish experience, and illustrated the complexity of definitions vis-à-vis what makes language sacred.
A community of interest formed around the topic and continues to correspond informally. Dr Badder and Dr Jo-Ann Myers (Leo Baeck) are editing a collected volume on the topic.
Find out more
The events (as advertised)
- Webinar: Language learning in/as Religious Education (November 2022)
- Roundtable: Language learning in/as Religious Education (February 2023)
- Hybrid workshop: Language learning in/as Religious Education (March 2023)
Reports and publications
- Anastasia Badder. “‘I Just Want You to Get into the Flow of Reading’: Reframing Hebrew Proficiency as an Enactment of Liberal Jewishness.” Language & Communication 87 (2022), pp. 221—30, doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.08.003
- Report from the final workshop (March 2023).