| RPE
| RPE
Religion, Philosophy & Ethics
Welcome to the course blog for Religion, Philosophy & Ethics at University of Gloucestershire.
Heidegger Being Towards Death: Part 2
As we mentioned in the first post, RPE has moved its teaching, as many universities have, online during the lockdown. Part of this teaching is video essays, which are a good way of communicating difficult philosophical ideas visually and replacing…
Heidegger Being Towards Death: Part 1
As you all know the lockdown has meant that face to face teaching has been suspended for the meanwhile. This also has meant that our teaching has moved online. One of the resources we use are video essays. You…
Camus’ La Peste: More than just an allegory for our time in lock down?
Please read the above. This is an intriguing evaluation of Camus’ salutary view of society just post world war II. I would urge all students of religion, philosophy and ethics to read this, the work itself and then reflect…
Zakat in action: how Muslims in Scotland are demonstrating the true spirit of giving in the run up to Ramadan.
As the holy month of Ramadan begins Muslims around the world will be be fasting in the shadow of the Coronavirus pandemic. Globally speaking, for many in the last few weeks going without food has been an ongoing…
ISKCON Prasadam in times of Pandemic
In these strange and unsettling times it is great to know that, alongside the NHS, the army of carers and many others who are contributing to making the lockdown as comfortable as possible, the International Society of Krishna Consciousness…
Devotion in a time of lock down : Steaming Faith.
http://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3020818677940747&id=100000379329688&anchor_composer=false As the above link suggests, its not only teaching that has gone on line but religion too as we all attempt to negotiate our way through the Coronavirus maze. Funerals, communion, services all on line and the Jalaram Bapa…
Faith vs Virus
In The U.K. we have all had to adjust to living and dying with the Coronavirus, social distancing has played a key part in terms of the Governments attempts to apprehend the spread of the pandemic. Distancing could however…
ISKCON and GLOS RPE discuss climate change.
Students had the pleasure of meeting with three Bhaktas from the Welsh (Cardiff) International Society of Krishna Consciousness temple community last Monday. As part of the ongoing theme of how religion engages with the climate change emergency the monks, lead…