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29 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: Andrea Musumeci. How are religious communities evolving in Europe? In what way have historical events influenced the way people profess their faiths? ... However, the course did not only focus on events, but also on the role of people and their effect on

30 Jun 2024: It would be a grave mistake to think that fundamentalists, the strictly observant, are focused solely on the afterlife or reaching for perfection. It would be a grave mistake to think that fundamentalists, the strictly observant, are focused solely

30 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

29 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: In doing so, Professor Knobler demonstrated that people from the East often manipulated Western peoples' expectations of them rather than being subjects of Western idealisations of Eastern identity. ... documents can lead the researcher to make incorrect

29 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: How do people from different faiths have constructive conversation? Join Ed as he explains a new letter each week.

29 Jun 2024: Is diaspora community just a posh phrase for immigrant community? Diasporas are often born of misfortune, the experience of homelands left willingly because of lack of opportunity, or fled because of war. In the age after Empire, many subject

30 Jun 2024: Are we reaching a tipping point in our attitudes towards racial inequality? When George Floyd’s brutal killing was captured on video, Black Lives Matter protests quickly spread across the world. In England, the statue of the 17th century slave

30 Jun 2024: Thus, Kessler concluded, if Europeans seek to understand world affairs, they must pay attention to how religious beliefs continue to influence how people think about themselves, group belonging, and the production

30 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: Modern slavery is going on all around us. Brothels, nail bars, car wash outlets and some wealthy households all need victims who they can exploit, and people traffickers happily supply them.

30 Jun 2024: It is no coincidence that the Nazis likened Jewish people to rats and Rwandan Tutsis were called cockroaches.

30 Jun 2024: Many people look to their family trees for exciting and surprising discoveries about their ancestors, or to clear up long-standing questions about family history.

30 Jun 2024: Synagogue of Brussels) and Le Musée Juif de Belgique (the Jewish Museum), where just over a year ago, a gunman shot and killed four people.

30 Jun 2024: Over 30 people came together to share and learn, eat and drink, discuss and debate with a wide range of speakers, guests and with one another. ... People came to know how places of worship were used on a day to day basis; they witnessed prayers and spoke

30 Jun 2024: What does it mean to be free? When the Berlin Wall came down in 1991, the writer Alan Bennet quipped mordantly about ‘the freedom to shop’. Of course there was much more to it than that. Esther-Miriam Wagner and Alexander Massmann join Ed

30 Jun 2024: While we each have desks in the office, our real desks are among people outside of the building - listening to others and prompting difficult discussions about religion and belief that ultimately ... But the work of the Institute is so important and the

30 Jun 2024: Could space be where the next arms race plays out? The night sky has been a source of wonder for humanity. We may still look at the stars with awe but we also think of space as a potential military asset. And we are filling it with junk. Gerry

30 Jun 2024: So why is it that so many people, in America and elsewhere, find it so difficult to accept the idea of evolution?

29 Jun 2024: Blog. 9th Jun 2024. Blog. 12th May 2024. Blog. 5th May 2024. Blog. 4th Apr 2024. God is dead, yet a divine shadow still looms. What makes religious ritual so irresistible? If I am right - must you be wrong? Do we understand ourselves better by

30 Jun 2024: Podcast:. In the current climate, social media is flooded with new, quick 'at home' recipes for people to try in isolation. ... Cooking and sharing food are profound indicators of our humanity and can help bring people together, even at a distance, and

29 Jun 2024: speaking to a Hay audience of a handful of people, with someone walking out pretty much straight away. ... their way into my tent on this early Sunday morning, perhaps 250 people – a few more than my usual ten-people max seminars.

30 Jun 2024: Blog:. As places of worship across the world are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people of faith need to either offer prayers within the restricted walls of their homes

30 Jun 2024: peoples’ attitudes towards diversity, to see what was actually going on.

30 Jun 2024: A practical toolkit designed to help interfaith organisations measure their impact at a grassroots level. The Toolkit is now available free of charge for…

30 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

29 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

29 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

29 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: Is there a science of forgiveness? "Without forgiveness there is no future." So said the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. But do we have it in us to forgive the most egregious sins? Some think that is in God's realm. Kitty O'Lone and

30 Jun 2024: On prejudice. On prejudice. Daniel Staetsky from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research joins Ed to examine antisemitism based on hard evidence. How antisemitic is our society? Are antisemitism and criticism of Israel linked? And what might the

30 Jun 2024: Sometimes even atheists are tempted to believe. Sometimes even atheists are tempted to believe. The Woolf Institute podcast 'An A-Z of Believing' was published by The Independent as a weekly short essay. Read G for GodWoolf Institute. Madingley

30 Jun 2024: On prejudice (II). On prejudice (II). How prevalent is Islamophobia in Britain? In what ways does it permeate our society? And what can we do to tackle it? First, the Woolf Institute's Julian Hargreaves talks definitions and common misconceptions.

30 Jun 2024: Sex is glorious, sex is sinful, sex is necessary. Opinions differ. Sex is glorious, sex is sinful, sex is necessary. Opinions differ. The Woolf Institute podcast 'An A-Z of Believing' was published by The Independent as a weekly short essay. Read S

30 Jun 2024: interfaith connections, deconstruct stereotypes about religious belief and practice and to bring people together through laughter. ... Research:. What is it about music that brings people together? How does music create a sense of communal belonging?

29 Jun 2024: Immortality is a fantasy so we better get real about death and dying. How should we prepare for death? How can we cope when those we love die? Medical advances mean life can be prolonged as never before but is this the right way to go? Joining Ed

30 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: The Woolf Institute provides an academic framework and space in which people could tackle issues of religious difference constructively.

30 Jun 2024: Magic Thinking

30 Jun 2024: Such a mix of people, it was perhaps being suggested, might have more aptitude for this complex endeavour. . ... Among her explanations for this were the great difficulties of organizing people to work together when their constructed disciplinary

30 Jun 2024: Reconciliation

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30 Jun 2024: Could evil be understood as the "eclipse" of God? Could evil be understood as the "eclipse" of God? The Woolf Institute podcast 'An A-Z of Believing' was published by The Independent as a weekly short essay. Read E for EvilWoolf Institute. Madingley

30 Jun 2024: Blog:. In these trying times, people often seek ways to come together and faith is one of the ways that individuals and communities can connect with one another.

30 Jun 2024: Can Zion prove to itself and to the world that it is capable of being a holy site to all? Woolf Institute. Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps. Tel: 44 (0)1223 761971. General: enquiries@woolf.cam.ac.uk. Media: media@woolf.cam