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Friday the 4th April sees us hosting another Applicant Day for RPE (and History/RPE) applicants, here at our Francis Close Hall Campus in Cheltenham. All are very welcome – and we hope you find out everything you need to about…

Some of the RPE staff – as perceived by our third years.. I hope you can tell who is who…

Many thanks to Justin Whitaker, who came to do a meditation practice with year 2 yesterday. The meditation was a metta-bhavana practice, and we had a discussion of the practice before and after.  Justin is also the author of the…

So – we set off at 3am on 11th March for Spain – and after some exciting coach, plane, coach and walking: we arrived at our Hotel in Cordoba by early afternoon. We went on our usual orientation tour, featuring supermarkets, chemists,…

We will be leaving for Spain shortly – meeting in just over ten hours, at 2.30am – to study the Islamic, Christian and Jewish history, philosophy and culture of Andalusia, via our base in Cordoba. You can follow the trip via our photo…

Over at the Guardian’s Comment is Free you can find me wondering about different types of anger.. Just some speculation, wondering about perhaps thinking more about different types of anger, but it seems to have generated plenty of comment (which…

Roy Jackson’s new book What is Islamic Philosophy? has just been published by Routledge. It offers a broad introduction to Islamic thought, from its origins to the many challenging issues facing Muslims in the contemporary world. The chapters explore early…

There will be an Applicant Day for people who’ve applied for the RPE (Religion, Philosophy & Ethics) course on Wednesday 19 February. It’s a chance to get a feel for the University of Gloucestershire, for what it would be like to…

Despite the ‘methodological agnosticism’ our discipline has been… constructively criticised for and despite the phenomenological egg-shells some of us still tread on with care, the exciting thing about being a religious studies scholar today is that one has the freedom…