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Listen to or download podcasts of interviews with the Programme director and some award holders about their projects here. Hear what it is like to conduct research on religion and society and discussion of some of the issues arising. You can also access some audio outputs from projects. All recordings are produced by Norman Winter <<Audio content for broadcast and internet>> and owned by the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme, unless otherwise stated.
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Being British and being Muslim
21 April 10
What lies behind Muslim women choosing more noticeable forms of Islamic dress? One Phase 1 Small Grant has probed the choices being made by a particular group of women in the Midlands. Dress is a visible indicator that British Muslim women are changing in how they feel about themselves. Kaye Haw of Nottingham ... -
Marginalized Spiritualities
07 April 10
How engaged are young people in our cities in forms of religion, either conventional or new? Two studies conducted at Edinburgh University have brought the academic skills of geographers to bear on this issue facing religion in urban society. Betsy Olson is based in the School of Geosciences at Edinburgh University ... -
Methodist Central Halls as Public Sacred Spaces
08 April 10
Religious architecture has left a mark on Britain’s landscape. But in the centres of cities and major towns buildings can quite quickly come and go, especially those of no great and lasting aesthetic value. You can add to this the devastation caused by bombing in the Second World War. Fewer ... -
Roger Jeffery
08 April 10
Professor Roger Jeffery (Edinburgh University) presents the study Learning at the Swami's Feet, a comparative study of three Hindu schools in the South Indian state of Karnataka funded by Phase 2 of the Religion and Society Programme. He refers to his colleagues Professor Patricia Jeffery and Dr Aya Ikegame. This ... -
Steven Sutcliffe and Gavin Miller
08 April 10
The theory and practice of psychotherapy has a distinctive character and history in Scotland. There are demonstrable and clear links between the development of therapy and the language and ideas of theology. An inter-disciplinary team at the University of Edinburgh is studying the nature and significance of these connections in the period ... -
British Religion in Numbers April 2010
08 April 10
A great leap forward in accessing facts and figures on religion in Britain has been made possible by a project funded by the Religion and Society Programme. Leading scholars David Voas and Clive Field with a team based at the University of Manchester this month [April 2010] launched a new ...
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