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25 Sep 2017: Sheikh Michael Mumisa and Dr Edward Kessler Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths, Cambridge. www.woolfinstitute.cam.ac.uk Executive Summary There is a growing consensus among those involved in Jewish, Christian and Islamic seminary education in the

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Pentecostalism is the world's fastest growingChristian denomination. The Pentecostal movementclaims hundreds of millions of followers and enjoyspopularity globally, but especially in the majorityworld. Yet many of the world's

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17 Apr 2018: Beyond Dialogue? I N T E R FA I T H E N G A G E M E N T I N D E L H I , D O H A & L O N D O N. Authors: John Fahy & Jan-Jonathan Bock. Editor:Julian Hargreaves. Beyond Dialogue? I N T E R FA I T H E N G A G E M E N T IN D E L H I, D O H A & L O N D

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. If you visit East Germany, where I was born andraised, any time in late March and April, you will begreeted by bushes full of Easter eggs and nests ofeggs on the ground in many gardens and publicparks. Germany may be most famous

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, We are in the swing of Easter term in Cambridge,which runs from the second half of April to the middleof June. The term is always strangely dual in nature.On the one hand, it is the period of exams, with anxietypalpable in the

2 Nov 2022: Best wishes,. David PerryWoolf Media Consultant & Producer. The Woolf Institute Annual Publication 2022/23 is now available to download.This publication is full of information about current research, teaching, publiceducation and

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, From research to social good, from Cambridge to the wider world, the WoolfInstitute is increasing the impact of its work this year, especially within politicaland policymaking circles. With this goal in mind, we have further

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. The Woolf Research Days are a valuableopportunity to present the work of some of our bestyoung researchers to audiences in brief TED-styletalks. These occasions also give our students andacademics an opportunity to practise the

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. At the start of each new year, I find myself thinkingabout the past 12 months and wondering what I’ll bereflecting on next January when I look back at the. year just gone by. But with the Woolf Institute’s 25th. Anniversary

26 Jan 2024: Madingley Road I Cambridge I CB3 0UB. Tel 44 (0)1223 761984 Email enquiries@woolf.cam.ac.uk. Charity No 1069589 Company No 3540878. Secular Societies, Religious Followers; Opportunities? Challenges? From Majority to Minority – Being Muslim in

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Over the past few weeks the Woolf Institute, baskingas it has been in the hot summer sun, has been avibrant place, busy with events and the participants inthe various programmes we organise at this time ofyear. Two of these stand

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Trust is the basis of all successful societies: law, economic activity, democracyas a whole, all are based on trusting strangers. Building trust between the religious communities of Britain is essential for thecreation of a

7 Nov 2022: Every year millions of Muslims travel to Makkah during the last month of the Islamic calendar, Dhul Hajj,to perform a pilgrimage known as Hajj. The pilgrimage lasts around five days, from the 8th to the 13th ofDhul Hajj (this year coinciding with 7th

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Those who have spent nearly a full month fasting dailyfrom sunrise to sunset welcome the first day of Eid al-Fitr with open arms. Toward the end of Ramadan, youare physically exhausted but spiritually satiated. I cancertainly

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Few men have the privilege and good fortune to seetheir life’s vision take shape in front of them. Ed. Kessler, whose 60th birthday we were celebratingthis week, is that rare man. But fortune played only a small part. Ed

8 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, By the time you read this, we will have enjoyed theJubilee weekend and I hope you all have had awonderful time with family, neighbours andfriends. Seeing how during her long rule, her Majesty’sstoic determination and composure

26 Jan 2024: Madingley Road I Cambridge I CB3 0UB. Tel 44 (0)1223 761984 Email enquiries@woolf.cam.ac.uk. Charity No 1069589 Company No 3540878. Coptic Identities as Indigenous: The Politics of Recognition & Improving. Interfaith Relations in Egypt. Ironically,

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, One of the things that distinguishes the Woolf Institute from other researchinstitutes is our strive to translate all our research into public education.Academic work sometimes has the reputation of being conducted in an

9 Dec 2021: Cover image: Shurtterstock: XanderSt. Twitter icon. CONTENTSIntroduction. 4. Background. 5. Methods.

11 May 2021: Why Google’s SafeSearch function is not fit for purpose. UNSAFE SEARCH:. The text and illustrations may only be reproduced with prior permission of CST and the Antisemitism Policy Trust. Data analysis provided by the Woolf Institute, University of

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. September always feels like a new start. The newacademic year for schools and universities bringsexcitement, potential, and a little nervousness; with afour-year-old starting school for the first time, I knowthat this is true

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. As an academic, I always feel incredibly elated whena student tells me my teaching has changed the waythey think about a problem or the profound effect ourdiscussions have had on their lives. We always liketo think the Woolf

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Most teenagers who found themselves growing up inthe drab suburbs of South East London in the mid-1960s felt the need for escape. Skiffle music andAmerican Rock and Roll were popular. But not withme. I was captivated by the

30 Aug 2021: Bad Influence. INSTAGRAM:. The text and illustrations may only be reproduced with prior permission of CST and the Antisemitism Policy Trust. Data analysis provided by the Woolf Institute.Published by Community Security Trust and the Antisemitism

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Spring, with its longer daylight hours, new buds on thetrees, and – with a little bit of luck – increasingly sunnyweather, is an annual reminder of new beginnings.Having weathered the hardest season of the year, wecan look to

7 Nov 2022: The Woolf Institute Annual Publication 2022/23 is now available to download.This publication is full of information about current research, teaching, publiceducation and forthcoming events.

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Over the summer I had the joy of cycling with mydaughter across the solar system. We packed oursandwiches and got on our tandem bike, starting ourjourney at the sun. Mercury, Venus, and Earth wereall within a stone’s throw,

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Ramadan has always embodied for me a delightfullydelicate paradox: it is at once a month ofrenunciation and fulfilment, of stillness and activity,of turning inwards in contemplation and reachingoutwards in charity. Ramadan

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, In this special week of celebration of Easter,Passover and Ramadan it seems a good momentto remind ourselves of the foundation of theInstitute and to look forward to our 25th. anniversary next year. Back in 1998 when DrEdward

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, This year we have the rare occasion that majorfestivals of the three Abrahamic faiths align:Easter, Passover and Ramadan. Such aconcurrence last happened in 1991 and is broughtabout by the different calendar systems

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Too often interfaith dialogue focuses on our sharedground and skirts away from the contentiousconversations about what divides us. Althoughrecognising our common beliefs and sharedstandards is always a good thing, if we don’t

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Our light, airy and unusual building here at the Woolf has always lent itself to allsorts of events. In the five years since we moved in we have had concerts,comedy events, poetry recitals, dinners and drumming workshops all over

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, The Woolf Institute takes great pride in being aninterdisciplinary and collaborative institution. Whilemuch of our work focusses on the social sciences,theology and history, we also understand theimportance of the arts and

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Good. Friday Agreement. Signed on the 10th April 1998during Holy Week it ended, for the most part, theviolence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. If youlook back 30 years ago, there

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Powerful – Evocative – Moving. These are just someof the words used to describe the CambridgeTheological Federation’s Holocaust Memorial DayCommemoration. There is a long-held tradition withinthe CTF for the Woolf

11 Apr 2024: FAITH INMENTALHEALTHJamilla Hekmoun, Seherish Abrar. 2024. 02 Healthcare. Executive Summary. This report outlines findings from atwo-year research project conductedby the Woolf Institute. It aimed tohelp bridge the gap betweenmainstream mental

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Are we living through an age of crises? The language of crisis drives debate onclimate issues. The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a geopolitical crisisbetween Russia and the West. Crisis shapes our understanding of

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. I have been an intern at the Woolf Institute now fornearly a month, having returned following last year’ssummer school programme. I am an undergraduateat Brigham Young University in Salt Lake Citystudying Philosophy and

25 Sep 2017: 2 Valuing Diversity. INTRODUCTION. Valuing Diversity:Towards Mutual Respectand UnderstandingExploring dialogue and interfaith encounters. IntroductionValuing Diversity: Towards Mutual Respectand Understanding is an important resourcefor teachers

8 Nov 2022: In this issue we continue our occasional series of personalreflections about the Institute, its mission and what it means todifferent people. Between now and our 25th anniversary nextyear we will include the voices of many current and pastmembers of

3 Jul 2017: AUTHORSDr Jan-Jonathan Bock & Dr Sami Everett EDITORSDr Julian Hargreaves, Asher Kessler & Austin Tiffany. TRUST IN CRISIS: The Emergence of the Quiet Citizen. TRUST IN CRISIS: The Emergence of the Quiet Citizen. AUTHORSDr Jan-Jonathan Bock & Dr

10 Nov 2015: Bridging the GapStrengthening relations between hospices and. Muslims of Britain. Sughra Ahmed and Naved SiddiqiWoolf Institute. Acknowledgements. This piece of work exploring hospice care and British Muslim communities has been made possible by

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. November is Islamophobia Awareness Month. Nowin its tenth year, the campaign was originallyestablished by a group of British organisations led byMuslim-interest charity MEND (Muslim Engagementand Development). Despite receiving

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. To coin a phrase, love was in the air last week. StValentine’s Day: supermarket deals on prosecco androses; love bomb cards with their somewhatpredictable messages all over the place. But whatdoes our familiar commercial

4 Aug 2017: 4 Foreword. 5 Acknowledgments. 6 Introduction. Jewish Perspectives:. 7 How is ‘Israel’ Understood in Jewish Thought and Tradition? 12 What is the Significance of the State of Israel for Jews? Christian Perspectives:. 18 How is ‘Israel’

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. The end of my time in Cambridge and as a PhDScholar at the Woolf Institute is bitter-sweet. The fouryears I spent there count among the most impactfulin my growth as a scholar. Initially, my research topicwas about religion, and

1 Nov 2022: We continue our occasional series of memories from alumnias part of our 25th anniversary reflections. This week,Douglas Dalrymple looks back at what he describes as themost challenging and rewarding of his universityexperiences. Dear Woolf Friends,.

16 Aug 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As I write this the night sky is blazing with fireworks fromthe May Ball at a neighbouring college. Cambridgecelebrates the end of the academic year in great style. Atthe Woolf we too have been celebrating, not withfireworks,

11 Dec 2020: The full report is available as a free download at:www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/diversity. APPENDIX A:.