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Media fuelling rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain

28 Apr 2016

Mainstream media reporting about Muslim communities is contributing to an atmosphere of rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain, according to a...

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探花直播8th Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches

19 Oct 2015

Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015 launches today with over 250 events exploring arts, society and culture.

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A child's portrait of multiculturalism in the playground

鈥淵ou need to ignore it, babe鈥: how mothers prepare young children for the reality of racism

19 Jan 2015

Research among mothers with young children living in multicultural London shows that racism is a reality for children as young as five 鈥 and that...

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Animal, vegetable, mineral: the making of Buddhist texts

12 Jul 2014

探花直播wide-ranging objects on display at Buddha鈥檚 Word, an exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, show how Tibetan book makers used...

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Christmas dinner

鈥業ntelligent Trust鈥, ethno-religious relations and the rise of the food bank

14 Feb 2014

Shana Cohen and Ed Kessler discuss how individuals of different ethno-religious backgrounds in Europe can learn to trust each other, and how...

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Woman praying

Female conversion to Islam in Britain examined in unique research project

17 May 2013

A ground-breaking report examining the experiences of nearly 50 British women of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds and faiths (or no faith) 鈥 who...

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Pope Benedict XVI prays in front of the image of Our Lady of Fatima after arriving to catholic Fatima shrine in central Portugal, May 12, 2010

No Curia for old age: the radical act of papal resignation

15 Feb 2013

Dr Sara Silvestri, a specialist in religion and politics and a Research Associate with the Von H眉gel Institute, St Edmund鈥檚 College, examines the...

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