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Planning the year ahead..
Students in Seville Alcazar As we look back, we can see what has been enjoyed, and found useful, by our students, and plan the coming year. We went to Spain with the second years in March: a 5 night trip…
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Religion, Philosophy & Ethics
Welcome to the course blog for Religion, Philosophy & Ethics at University of Gloucestershire.
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Squeezing into Uncomfortable Spaces: Scholarly Objectivity and Strong Opinions.
No video, but some of the things I said at CESNUR13 Conference..
Buddhism and Atheism
Is Buddhism a form of Atheism? In this video I refer to texts you can find at – you may want to look at the passage where Brahma asserts he is the supreme God, but.. tipitaka/dn/dn.11.0.than.html#bigbrahma — Staff from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics…
CHANGING RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN A CHANGING WORLD – videos, etc
Speaking at CESNUR I recently attended CESNUR13, a conference about New Religious Movements. The proceedings are HERE, but I also made some short videos while I was there, which are at : – along with other videos by the RPE staff… They cover things as…
New Religious Movements and Children
Sanja Nilsson from Sweden talks about NRMs and Children: A short interview about work she is doing as part of her PhD (at Gothenburg and Dalarna Universities) – I hope to interview her again once it is complete.. You can see…
“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering”
For RPE 305 Philosophy and Literature we will be starting off by looking at Albert Camus’ novel The Plague. For your ‘summer reading’, then, you should at the very least read this novel – and more than once if you…
Robert Wallis on Paganism and Burial Sites
Alternative Archaelogy, Has It Happened?: Paganism and Archaeology in Twenty-first Century in Britain Robert WALLIS (Richmond University, London) We only just get started chatting before we are cut off by catering staff arriving – but we start on some great…
Kalmykia and Post-Soviet Religion
“New Cosmic Religion” and the Ancient Cult of the White Old Man Interpreted Anew: Communities of Ritual Healers in Post-Soviet Kalmykia Valeriya GAZIZOVA (University of Oslo) In this short video Valeriya talks about just one of the many forms of…
From Goddess to Cyborg..
I ask Venetia Robertson about her work, and we end up talking about Pagans and transhumanism: Venetia is a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney. Recorded at CESNUR 2013 in Falun. At you can see some of her work…