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'Poetry and Spirituality' evening to feature award holder
17 February 10
Principal Investigator on Phase 3 Small Grant *The Faerie Queene* Now Dr Ewan Fernie has been invited to talk about the project at an event on 'Poetry and Spirituality' on 25th March 2010 organised by the Poet in the City arts organisation.
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Award Holder on Panjab Radio
10 February 10
Doctoral student on Phase 2 Collaborative Studentship Keeping the Faith: The transmission of Sikhism among young British Sikhs (18-30) Jasjit Singh was a guest on the show 'Sweet Sikhi' discussing his research and the study of Sikhism in UK universities in general. Listen to it from here.
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Phase 2 Large Grant Team co-author DCSF Report
09 February 10
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has just released a report commissioned on materials used to teach about world religions in schools in England written by Professor Bob Jackson and a team from the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit.
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Redesigned Religion and Society Website Goes Live!
08 February 10
Welcome to the new and improved Religion and Society Programme website, which went live at the end of December 2009.
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New Podcasts Added
05 February 10
New podcasts have just been added to this website. They include a discussion at Dr Williams's Library about a Religion and Society Collaborative Studentship and Gordon Lynch introducing his 'Belief as cultural performance' network. Listen to or download them from here.
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Linda Woodhead on Newsnight
22 January 10
The Programme's Director appeared on Newsnight last night in a piece discussing the proposal to 'ban the burka' in France.
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Call for Applications for Methods Training Course
20 January 10
PhD students can now apply for a residential course on empirical methods for the study of religion, Sept 2010, Oxford, co-organised by the Centre for the Religion and Contemporary Society and this programme and funded by the AHRC's Collaborative Research Training scheme. Click here for the details and to apply.
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A History of the World
19 January 10
Programme Steering Committee member Dr JD Hill, a senior curator at the British Museum, has played a key role in the production of the BBC's exciting and extensive new project in collaboration with the Museum 'A History of the World'.