The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding Drawing on examples from the Israel-Palestine conflict, this lecture explores...
What is Happening to Christianity? Insights from Africa Christianity’s centre of gravity has shifted to the Global South. What do these changes mean for our understanding of the world’s largest religion?
Religion and the quantum world Does quantum physics offer confirmation of some religious or spiritual...
Sex, Politics (and Religion)? Contemporary Plays and Classic Revivals in British Theatre A consideration of two waves of British theatre between the...
How to be a Shakespearean Atheist This lecture will explore how the sixteenth century found ways of distancing itself from religion.
‘The Four Chaplains’: The Judeo-Christian Norm in America The heroic story of four chaplains – two Protestants, a...
Discovering Evil: The Moral Shock of Concentration Camps for American Soldiers ‘We are told that the American soldier does not know...
The Christian reticence of W H Auden Auden was arguably the most prodigiously talented of the great...
The challenge of atheist literature: Beckett, Pullman and McEwan Some works of literature today are written from a consciously...