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As part of the program of guest speakers for our new module ‘Contemporary Religious Landscapes’ we were joined by Jennifer Silverston and Abigail Fisher, long standing members of and spokespersons for the Cheltenham Synagogue community. This was a fantastic session…

This week our students were joined by Laura Downs (on the right hand side of the picture) of the Portishead Parish, just outside Bristol. Laura has been very much involved in a number of sustainable projects in the region and…

Religion, Philosophy and Ethics students researching emergent spiritualities were treated to a great session lead by Theo Wildcroft, one of the foremost thinkers and practitioners in the field of contemporary Yoga. A very experienced yoga teacher herself, Theo guided the…

As this article suggests, religious organisations are not playing a central role not only in dispelling misinformation about the pandemic but also in providing essential local vaccination services to many members of their communities. Read the full story here: UK…

What is the antagonism at the heart of the new form of contemporary capitalism? The capitalist is looking for ever new creative subjectivities, but this subjectivity must be controlled and limited. The contradictions of capital take place within the soul…

This is really good news for Pakistan’s small but thriving Hindu community and is especially important in terms of being able to provide the all important rituals that ensure Hindus who have died will have a safe passage between this…

As well as attaining 100% overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey, the department for Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at University of Gloucestershire has been rated 7th in the national Guardian league table for the subject area in the…

During a severely disrupted induction week this our new students acquainted themselves with the religious and philosophical landscape of Cheltenham by following a, ‘Walk of Faith and No faith’ map around the city centre. One group found themselves at the…

In the third video essay in God, Politics and Power, I examine the concept of human capital. Just as much as there has been an objective transformation of capital through financial innovation, then there has been a subjective one. At…