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4 Jul 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

5 Jul 2024: A Walking Tour of Woolf Institute Research Projects

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

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

5 Jul 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.

5 Jul 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.

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

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

4 Jul 2024: Both Islam and Christianity have a long history of trying to convert others; Judaism less so. Both Islam and Christianity have a long history of trying to convert others. Judaism less so. This activity has been the cause of conflict and violence in

5 Jul 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.

5 Jul 2024: Mental Health

5 Jul 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

5 Jul 2024: Woolf Institute staff and students acknowledge and thank our Friends.

5 Jul 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

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

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

5 Jul 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

4 Jul 2024: He, and other speakers, explored the impact of training, to understand the approaches and values that can help us as people in communities and as a society to reflect more deeply ... on the meaning of life and death for different people and communities.

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

5 Jul 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

4 Jul 2024: Roughly 55 people were split up into five different groups and were tasked with thinking through the role of religion and belief in a modern British society, including their responses to ... Each table represented vibrant religious diversity – people

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

5 Jul 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…

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

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

5 Jul 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

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

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

5 Jul 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?

4 Jul 2024: The central idea around which I have been working in my engagement with Muslim-Jewish relations is to make people understand each other's perspective and work together on issues that

5 Jul 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

5 Jul 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

4 Jul 2024: pay cosmic sums to the Polish government; in other words, taking the 'living space' of the British people". ... In Poland and the UK, people and parties seem to further their political causes and careers by exploiting the human weakness for scapegoating

5 Jul 2024: The Connections

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

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

5 Jul 2024: There’s a disturbing amount of antisemitic material on social media, and hate postings in general are rife. Following an increase in antisemitic postings on social media, the Antisemitism Policy Trust looked into it and asked the Woolf Institute

4 Jul 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

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

5 Jul 2024: Magic Thinking

4 Jul 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

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

5 Jul 2024: Diversity Study

5 Jul 2024: She wrote to Dickens in 1860 explaining that Jews regarded his portrayal of Fagin as 'a great wrong' to their people. ... get insight into the relationship between Dickens and Mrs Davis – he the author of repute, she attempting to redeem him in the

5 Jul 2024: do it for every web page requested measuring how many people are using services so they can be made easier to use analysing anonymous data to help us understand how people

5 Jul 2024: Can we really forgive and forget? What benefits are there to forgiving others? Forgiving others is a serious matter but can it come from nowhere? Or is an apology needed first from the perpetrator of the misdeed in question? And when does an apology

5 Jul 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.

5 Jul 2024: A notorious modern example is Serbo-Croatian, where the religious separation between peoples is buttressed by different use of alphabets for what is essentially the same language: Cyrillic script by Serbian ... Seeing how people navigated linguistic

5 Jul 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

5 Jul 2024: One person's Holy Land is another person’s land grab. One person's Holy Land is another person’s land grab. The Woolf Institute podcast 'An A-Z of Believing' was published by The Independent as a weekly short essay. Read L for LandWoolf