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Pope Benedict XVI prays in front of the image of Our Lady of Fatima after arriving to catholic Fatima shrine in central Portugal, May 12, 2010

No Curia for old age: the radical act of papal resignation

15 Feb 2013

Dr Sara Silvestri, a specialist in religion and politics and a Research Associate with the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, examines the...

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Mrs Gibson on a camel in the Sinai, 1893.

Historic rivals join forces to save 1,000 years of Jewish history

15 Feb 2013

Cambridge University Library and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have today announced their first ever joint fundraising campaign to...

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Renaissance

Piety in the Renaissance Home

14 Jan 2013

The notion of the Renaissance as a ‘secular age’ is to be challenged by three University of Cambridge researchers after securing €2.3m funding from...

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Whitechapel Market

Challenging “us versus them”

19 Oct 2012

A series of programmes which aim to address and counteract radical thought in British youth is now being adapted for use across Europe.

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Summer school participants during a tour of the University.

Inter-faith summer schools train future leaders in art of “intelligent disagreement”

09 Jul 2012

Emerging religious leaders from around the world have arrived in Cambridge for a programme which aims to build understanding between faiths and teach...

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Scene depicting a husband and wife accusing each other before a quadi (judge) from Les Makamat de Hariri (1054-1122). .

Encounters in medieval matrimony

17 May 2012

Scholars from five different institutions, and both Christian and Muslim backgrounds, will gather in Cambridge tomorrow to look at medieval Islamic...

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Cambridge

A shared future based on a shared past

28 Mar 2012

A conference which aims to bridge the gap between academic research on Islam and public opinion regarding Muslims in the West will take place in...

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Robert Asher

Can a scientist be religious?

11 Mar 2012

The relationship between science and religion has had its rocky moments. But Dr Robert Asher, author of the newly published book 'Evolution and...

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Professor Richard Bauckham

Jürgen Moltmann, 'the most influential Christian theologian'

10 Feb 2012

Professor Richard Bauckham, Senior Scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, discusses the theologian Jürgen Moltmann. Prof Moltmann will be giving a public...

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16th century votive offerings

Objects of devotion

02 Feb 2012

Why did Renaissance shoppers fill their baskets with rosaries, crucifixes, Christ-dolls and devotional paintings? A new study by historian Dr Mary...

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John Polkinghorne

Where God meets physics

28 Nov 2011

Eminent thinker and commentator Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, Fellow of the Royal Society, will be giving a public talk – titled A Destiny Beyond Death...

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The Third Temple of Solomon under construction in Sao Paolo

Belief and beyond

23 Oct 2011

In a Festival of Ideas talk for the public this Tuesday, Cambridge University academic Dr David Lehmann will discuss the enduring power of...

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