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Read more at: The nascent Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology at the Faculty of Divinity

The nascent Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology at the Faculty of Divinity

8 May 2025

cambridge_centre_for_chinese_theology.png cambridge_centre_for_chinese_theology.png Lux Mundi Inc. (USA) has awarded Dr. Ximian Simeon Xu a grant of £1 million to establish the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology (CCCT). The project will advance Chinese theology understood in the broadest sense through addressing the...


Read more at: Seminar Discussion and Book Launch - Images of Elsewhere by Timothy Jenkins

Seminar Discussion and Book Launch - Images of Elsewhere by Timothy Jenkins

29 April 2025

You are warmly invited to a panel discussion with Dr Timothy Jenkins (Reader Emeritus in Social Anthropology of Religion, Cambridge) on his new series of books on the relation between religion and machine and human thinking in the long history of UFOs. Panellists include Prof Joseph Webster (Professor of the Anthropology...


Read more at: In Our Time on the topic of ‘Typology’ featured the Divinity Faculty's Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe

In Our Time on the topic of ‘Typology’ featured the Divinity Faculty's Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe

23 April 2025

On 17th April, BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time on the topic of ‘Typology’ featured the Divinity Faculty's Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Associate Professor in Patristics, alongside fellow Cambridge academic Dr Harry Spillane (Munby Fellow in Bibliography Cambridge Melvyn Bragg and guests explore typology, a method of biblical...


Read more at: Dr Marietta van der Tol to take up the Landecker Lectureship at the Faculty of Divinity

Dr Marietta van der Tol to take up the Landecker Lectureship at the Faculty of Divinity

12 March 2025

The Alfred Landecker Foundation has awarded Dr Marietta van der Tol (Trinity College) one of its prestigious Landecker Lectureships, carrying €600,000 in funding for the five-year project “Imagining Sacred Lands: the ‘Russian World’, ‘Hungarian World’, and ‘Holy Serbia’”. The Landecker Lecturer Program’s mission is to...


Read more at: Ways of Oneness - Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA - Penultimate Stanton Lecture this evening 5pm

Ways of Oneness - Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA - Penultimate Stanton Lecture this evening 5pm

4 March 2025

The penultimate Stanton Lecture in this series, this evening 5pm, Runcie Room. ------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 4 March, Thursday 6 March Lectures 5-6. Oneness with manyness Self and World in God: Comparing Rāmānuja and Ibn al-‘Arabi All welcome . img_2795._ram._v.4.jpg


Read more at: Hearts and Minds Award

Hearts and Minds Award

3 March 2025

Congratulations are due to Dr Anastasia Badder, whose collaboration with Dr Nikolai Kazantsev (IfM) won a competition for interdisciplinary research proposals. Earlier this month, Anastasia and Nikolai participated in a University of Cambridge Bridging STEM and AHSS Hearts & Mind event. Hosted at the West Hub, the...


Read more at: The Stanton Lectures 2025

The Stanton Lectures 2025

3 March 2025

ram.jpg The Stanton Lectures 2025 - Monday 3rd March, fourth lecture today - 'Ways of Oneness' Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion (Lancaster) Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room 5 – 6:30pm. All welcome.


Read more at: THE STANTON LECTURES 2025

THE STANTON LECTURES 2025

27 February 2025

The third/six lecture in this series is this evening Thursday 27 February: Ways of Oneness Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion Lancaster University Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room 5 – 6:30pm God and World: Complementary perspectives from Abhinava and Spinoza. All very...


Read more at: THE STANTON LECTURES 2025

THE STANTON LECTURES 2025

20 February 2025

The first two lectures in this series commence on Monday 24 February and Tuesday 25 February: Ways of Oneness Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion Lancaster University Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room 5 – 6:30pm Lectures 1-2. Overcoming difference World, self and what...


Read more at: BBC Sunday Morning Live - Akeem Adagbada on African Spirituality and History

BBC Sunday Morning Live - Akeem Adagbada on African Spirituality and History

11 February 2025

Akeem Adagbada, one of our PhD students, was interviewed recently on BBC Sunday Morning Live . Akeem's research interests cut across African 'traditional' religion, Christianity, and the Arts, and he features in a segment discussing the place of African Spirituality, mythology and history in possible changes to the British...