Faith & Globalisation Programme Durham University Research focus


A major emphasis at Durham University is to offer rigorous, stimulating, creative, research-driven education to students at all levels.


The Faith and Globalisation Programme fully reflects this orientation. A regular agenda of research will be developed, both individual and collaborative in nature. Research will seek to benefit from expertise in different parts of the world. Partnerships and exchanges will facilitate


Within the Programme four main research areas are evolving. These reflect existing links, interests and specialisms within the associated staff, and are attentive to the changing nature of the field, as both the processes of globalisation and the manifold forms of engagement of faith and religious traditions are reshaped by events. They indicate a starting point rather than an exclusive agenda. They are:


• identity and culture • politics and governance • economics and finance • science and technology


Research into these areas seeks to address various dimensions of the connection between faith/religion and globalisation, for example:


dialogue and identify practical or policy-oriented alternatives to perceived problems. Staff and postgraduate students engaged in various research formats will maintain and expand this research agenda.


• historical and regional dimensions of such phenomena;


• relevant (and competing) theories and conceptual vocabulary;


• treatment of various layers of social, political, economic, cultural phenomena shaping global processes;


• the complex and sometimes conflicting interplay of religious and secular perspectives;


• descriptive, interpretive, conceptual and normative discourses;


• elements of the practical application of knowledge in addressing further research developments or current public affairs.


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