Faith & Globalisation Programme Durham University Programme areas
The Faith and Globalisation Programme at Durham University comprises a full taught masters course (commencing in October 2010), a regular series of Research Seminars and other events and, crucially, a robust research agenda engaging collaboration worldwide.
These activities permit us to explore the interconnections between faith, spirituality and organised religion, and global issues, contexts and dynamics, both in terms of scholarship and practical orientations.
The main focus of the Programme will be on the public engagement and the cultural impact of religious actors (groups, movements, and organisations) across a range of issues of global pertinence. Durham thus joins its expertise on Christian and Jewish theology and ethics, on the one hand, and on Islamic and international studies, on the other, to form the basis for an interdisciplinary approach to the theme. These are further expanded and deepened by drawing from other departments and research groups within the University, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.
Institutionalised expressions of religion should then be considered alongside less bounded forms of faith and belief. The underlying approach to faith/religion adopted by the Programme acknowledges that faith can be lived in
experiential and/or intellectual ways, which can correspondingly take on religious and non- religious, diffuse and organised, formats. “Faith” and “religion”, therefore, are used to convey these shades of meaning as well as the recognition of their usual interchangeability in learned and everyday discourses. Globalisation, in turn, is basically understood as a process encompassing distinct dimensions and calling for different perspectives, with particular emphasis on its historically constructed, changing and contested character.
Let us look into each of these areas more closely.
“The two most pressing issues of our age are surely: 1) how might the long-term reality of radical difference and religious plurality be lived for mutual well-being rather than mutually assured destruction? And 2) how might globalisation be made to work for the good of all? The Durham Faith and Globalisation programme will make a vital interdisciplinary contribution to helping us address these two crucial issues jointly for the flourishing of
society.” Paul Murray, Theology and Religion
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