Previous events In 'Theology and Religion events' Forthcoming eventsThe Cadbury lecturesPrevious events Back to 'Theology and Religion' 2022 30th March - Language as law: how an 8th century jurist approached the language of Qur'an and Hadith23rd March - Myth making and gender construction among Islamist violent extremist groups in Pakistan22nd March - Knowing vs. understanding in Judaism9th March - Moral reasoning, animal slaughter, and the ironies of contemporary Shi'i jurisprudence16th February - The Muslim Theologian Ibn Taymiyya on the Gospels relation to the Torah2nd February - The dinner table prejudice: a new survey on Islamophobia in contemporary Britain 2021 13th December - Public Lecture - Eucharistic Practice and the Christian Life27th October - Editorial Power: Galen and his Manipulated Canon21st October - Living with more than one tradition18th October - Living with more than one tradition13th October - Seeing Incarceration in Antiquity: Two Case Studies8th-10th September - Reformation Studies Colloquium 20216th September - God and Being: Rāmānuja's Reconciliation of Metaphysics and Devotion28th July - Faith and the Environment Across the Commonwealth Day8th July - 2) Science, Belief, and Society in the COVID-19 pandemic7th July - 1) Intersectional Approaches to Diversity in STEMM: Belief, Culture, and Inclusion7th-9th July - STEMM and Belief in Diverse Contexts Conference 202122nd-24th June - The Global Philosophy of Religion Project Online Conference17th-21st May - Cadbury Lectures 202126th April - Book launch - Reader in Political Theology Reader22nd April - Book launch: Islam and the Liberal State22nd April - GCfE Book Conversation with Joseph Twist21st January-25th March - The Twelfth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament 2020 26th November - Ezra's legacy in the dead sea scrolls31st October - GloPent World 202015th-17th October - Worship and the Megachurch digital conference22nd September - Building trust8th July - Postgraduate Offer Holder Day - College of Arts and Law22nd June - Is religion the blind spot of populism?18th-22nd May - Postponed: Cadbury Lectures 202024th March - Perennialism and Politics11th March - Commentary manuscripts of the Greek New Testament: Codex Zacynthius and the CATENA project10th March - Islam and Gendered Subjectivities3rd March - Islam, Gender and Tradition26th February - PG student papers11th February - Re-Calling the Caliphate 2019 11th-12th December - STECA - Second Temple Early Career Academy9th December - The silence about Ezra in the Dead Sea Scrolls: where do we go from here?8th-10th December - Ezra's Legacy and the Dead Sea Scrolls conference3rd December - On Secularism and Multiculturalism19th November - Norbert Elias, Religious Symbolism, and the Civilising Process5th November - Codex Zacynthius: Retracing the Words of Scribes and Early Christian Writers30th September - Christian Theology in the Image of Pentecost26th June - Pouring Water through a Telescope18th June - Red Hands30th May - Cadbury Lectures 2019 - On Being at Home in the World29th May - Cadbury Lectures 2019 - God's Love, God's Home: A Brief Story of Everything28th May - Cadbury Lectures 2019 - Modern Homelessness28th-30th May - Cadbury Lectures 2019 - The World as God's Home16th-17th May - Inside Festival Cultures: Fields, Bodies, Ecologies26th-27th April - Sufism and Philosophy: Historical Interactions and Crosspollinations4th-6th March - At One Remove: Versions and Other Indirect Evidence for the New Testament13th February - Classrooms as holding environments29th January - Faith and Activism: A Conversation 2018 4th December - Abul Ala Maududi's theo-democracy: Locating sovereignty in colonial and post-colonial states20th November - Elephants, pomegranates, and the attributes of God: The Quranic worlds of Ignazio Lomellini and Lodovico Marracci16th November - Elements of Displacement workshop at DaDa Festival15th November - Three faiths, one question: why do good people do bad things?23rd October - The political impact of the self during the Islamic Revolution9th October - Muslim feminist methodologies and the reform of Sharia Councils in Britain1st October - Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls - Book Launch12th June - The importance of women in early Pentecostalism: A case study from Sweden18th May - Cadbury Lectures 2018 - The intertwinement of religious and secular dynamics in our global age: global denominationalism and the globalization of the secular immanent frame17th May - Cadbury Lectures 2018 - The external road of colonial encounters and the formation of a world system of religious pluralism15th May - Cadbury Lectures 2018 - The internal European road of secularization: confessionalization and deconfessionalization14th May - Cadbury Lectures 2018 - The modern religious-secular binary system of classification9th May - The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Forum 2nd Annual Post-graduate Symposium16th-17th April - Europe's new migrants: marriage practices and policies27th March - Learn to disagree better - scriptural reasoning workshop20th March - Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy - a talk on the memoir-biography of Martin Luther King's widow by author Barbara Reynolds19th March - Islamic studies – scientific or confessional? A contested university subject5th March - Market Islam and organising Hajj-going in late modern Britain: tour operators, pilgrim welfare and UK governance19th February - Gendering prophecy in the Islamic tradition7th February - Indigenous religions in China today29th January - Untold stories: Arab media provision for children25th January - Forbidden Fruit: Translating the Qur'an in early modern Europe24th January - Beautiful bookhands and careless characters: An alternative approach to the Dead Sea Scrolls15th January - The obligation to migrate and the impulse to narrate: forced migration from the Caucasus to Ottoman lands in the Soviet literary imagination 2017 6th December - The 'joyful challenge' of minority congregations' use of Anglican church spaces in a diverse urban diocese5th December - Islamophobia, literature and culture29th November - Persian Documents from Pre-Mongol Bamiyan27th November - The Mayor and Faith Conference23rd November - Muslim Societies and Islam21st November - Body and spirit in early Islamic theology8th November - Big Data and Christian Ethics7th November - Funding research on transnational Islam: the ALTERUMMA project25th October - Theology and Religion Research Project Seminar17th October - The complexities of "talking back" - How Dutch Muslims claim a public voice in the face of the racialisation of Islam16th October - Clash of the Titans: Barth versus Hegel11th October - Is the Sacred Spatial?3rd October - Academic freedom and free speech in a time of 'terror'27th September - Big Data and Christian Ethics13th July - The 'Joyful Challenge' of Minority Congregations' Use of Anglican Church Spaces in a Diverse Urban Diocese11th July - A sector deal on disability6th June - The Spirit of the Atonement: Pentecostal Challenges to the Christian Tradition6th June - Walter J. Hollenweger Lecture 201716th May - Religion and foreign policy: a Brussels perspective10th May - Dr Elizabeth Harris speaking at UNESCO in Paris10th May - The Dead Sea Scrolls, Austerity, and the Role of Elites10th May - United for Peace - Unity through Poetry9th May - The Place of Sacred Art: A symposium exploring the interpretation of sacred art in secular and faith contexts27th March - Exploring Radicalisation and Securitisation21st March - Nasir al-Din Tusi and the Problem of Truthmaking in Medieval Arabic Thought14th March - Seeing the Face of the Divine: Conceptions of God and the Cosmos in early Medieval Shiʿi Thought10th March - Heavenly bodies: with what kind of bodies will we come?9th March - Like the angels? gender and procreation in Mark 127th March - Scriptural hermeneutics as philosophy: al-Shahrastani's Mafatih al-Asrar7th March - The righteous amputees in Mark 96th March - Talking corpse or resurrected body: what can we know about the resurrection of Jesus in John?2nd March - Reclaiming Hope: Faith in the Obama White House28th February - Jewish Materials (isrāʾīlīyāt) in the Qurʾān and the 'Anxiety of Influence': Reflections on a Religious Debate21st February - On European Islam: New Pathways beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism8th February - The Spirit of Dis/continuity: Pentecostalism in a South African Township'7th February - Contesting Ibn Taymiyyah: the debate between Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhāb and his brother Sulayman31st January - Publicly Funded Islamic Education in Europe: an opportunity for equal rights or a way to control Islam?24th January - I give you my word: Law and Medieval Islamicate Societies21st-22nd January - Virtues of greatness: approaches to the past and present of magnanimity17th-30th January - Objects of Knowledge in Kalām10th-30th January - From Banning Burkinis to Halal Hysteria: constructing Islamophobia in the social and political spaces 2016 6th December - Ibn Taymiyya's uses of Ibn Rushd on God's attributes1st December - What we do not talk when we talk about rescuers of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland29th November - Questions in the history of Muslim education22nd November - Is there a crisis in Muslim masculinity? Exploring the construction of Muslim masculinity in contemporary times and the impact of this8th November - The legal status of Muslims in Switzerland1st November - Megachurches and Social Engagement in London Conference26th October - Writing about the "Other" in Africa: reflections from the 16th century25th October - A jurist among judges: The role of the mufti in South Asia18th October - Can the idea of a British Islam be rescued? Using the example of institutional change to trace British Muslim integration11th October - The School of Ra'y: Legal rationalism and its place in the early classical Hanafi school4th October - Using the 'other': Morisco 'borrowings' from Christian authors23rd September - Philosophy of religion one-day workshop10th-12th July - BAJS Conference 2016: The Texture of Jewish Tradition: Investigations in Textuality15th June - Creating Kosher culture: Orthodox Jewish women making literature, music and film14th June - Pentecostalism, the Body, and Embodiment8th June - Get to the back of the Bus! Images of Orthodox Jewish women in the US, England and Canada24th May - Faith in social action: where next?23rd March - Writing about the "Other" in Africa: reflections from the 16th century15th March - Points on translation and interpretation of the Qur'an10th March - Global challenges: the contributions of social science8th March - Muslims Living in non-Muslim Lands: Anti-Sharia Movements in the West in Light of Traditional Islamic Jurisprudence8th March - National conversations: whose feathers are ruffled?3rd March - Rethinking the metropolis: the unexpected can and does happen1st March - Thinking locally: continuity and change23rd February - Understanding gender in the apocalyptic and utopian thinking of so called Islamic State10th February - Decisions at the end of life: Halachah (Jewish law) meets reality?9th February - From Europe to the Gulf: religious rituals among Shia women in London and Kuwait2nd February - Muslims living in non-Muslim lands: anti-Sharia movements in the West in light of traditional Islamic jurisprudence27th January - The Afterlife of Biblical Texts26th January - The Houthis: their history, ideology and impact on the future of Yemen19th January - Hermeneutics of a justice orientated reading of Shari'a in Shi'i thought8th January - Will the real Ibn Taymiyya please stand up? Hunting for Ibn Taymiyya's theological ethics. 2015 9th December - AHRC M3C and WRoCAH DTP Policy Engagement Workshop: Religion Education Government Policy8th December - The Hidden World of Islam in Britain: Tawiz, Sihr and Exorcism1st December - The Mosque in the Qur'an24th November - The Houthis: their history, ideology and impact on the future of Yemen17th November - Hermeneutics of a justice orientated reading of Shari'a in Shi'i thought10th November - The Minimalisation of Christianity under Islamic rule.27th October - Abrogation in the Qur'an: History and Myths20th October - Islam in Europe: Retrenchment and Renewal13th October - Mutahhari, the Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution.2nd-25th October - The Birmingham Qur'an Manuscript Exhibition8th September - Special Event: Germany's Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context21st July - Giving Women Their Place in Holocaust History20th July - German Concentration Camps Factual Survey25th June - Good and Evil in Biblical and Post-Biblical Traditions21st March - Public Lecture: The Kalam Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God20th March - Just Pretend19th-20th March - Making Ontological Commitments18th March - Anti-Platonic Realism17th March - The Challenge of Platonism16th March - Divine Aseity25th February - Julius Wellhausen and the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam16th February - The John Hick archives project 2014 25th November-3rd December - The Edward Cadbury Lectures 201412th November - (Mis)representing and reconstructing the role of the "four women" in the Auschwitz Sonderkommando uprising30th October - Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity - Creation, Reception and Impact20th October - The Auschwitz Sonderkommando Uprising: Piecing Together an Account3rd October - The University, the Study of Religion and the Public Square22nd September - Sixth Annual Rabbi Tann Memorial Lecture10th June - Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies research seminars9th June - Are some Qumran caves more special than others?4th June - Scholars of Islam workshop2nd June - Women in Genesis20th May - Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies research seminars29th April - Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies research seminars29th April - The Torah of Moses in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls31st March - Urban Theology Forum guest lecture13th March - Heaven and Hell3rd March - A Painful Legacy: Martin Luther and the Jews24th February - Jewish Survival in early-modern Catholic Europe: Inquisition, Ghettoisation and Community11th February - Reincarnation4th February - Said Nursi's notion of sacred science: Its function and application in Hizmet High School education3rd February - Could a Jew Be a Gentleman in Victorian England?29th January - Writing the History of the Jews of Poland and Russia21st January - How can we research Islam properly in the current climate? 2013 10th December - The Arabic-Afrikaans manuscript tradition: Its material production and theological impact on South Africa's Muslims4th December - The Kindertransport in History and Memory3rd December - Living without why. A Muslim's attempt to authenticity27th November - British memory and representation of the Kindertransport18th November - The Kindertransport in Retrospect16th October - West Midlands Remembers3rd July - Unity and Diversity in Text and Tradition27th June - Collaborative partnerships between universities and Muslim institutions: dismantling the roadblocks22nd June - Undergraduate open day21st June - Undergraduate open day20th June - Undergraduate open day11th June - Testing prayer: why Pentecostal healing should be studied empirically10th June - "'O beastly Jews': Jewish Responses to that Venerable Tradition"29th May - David Parker at the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts23rd May - Collaborative partnerships between universities and Muslim institutions: dismantling the roadblocks15th May - Postgraduate workshop: Improving your writing skills30th April - The origins of Anglo Jewry in Birmingham21st March - Objective Faith? the Spiritual Object Studio Portrait Series21st March - Homeric commentaries and paraphrases: Eustathius of Thessalonica in search of Demosthenes Thrax20th March - Faith Schools - blessing or curse?19th March - The Fifth Annual Rabbi Tann Memorial Lecture18th March - Introducing Christian-Muslim Relations: a bibliographical history18th March - Ecocritical readings of Modern Hebrew literature and recent Israeli fiction11th March - Nature as metaphor in Modern Hebrew literature7th March - Meleager rides the rails: Kenneth Rexroth's Greek Anthology21st February - Romespeak: Why de Lingua Latina?19th February - Sufism Islamic mysticism or is it just an essential aspect of Islam?7th February - The Optical Neume Recognition Project5th February - Islamism and the empowerment of women in Syria4th February - Maimonides Versus Nahmanides On Fighting for the Land of Israel: Some Reflections on Jewish Theology28th January - How reliable is the story of the Nag Hammadi discoveries?28th January - Postgraduate student workshop24th January - The Book of the Dead in Nineteenth-Century Britain22nd January-19th March - The Cadbury Lectures 2013 - Department of Theology and Religion15th January - Kitab al-Majdal in the 11th century Historical setting10th January - Will the real Poseidonios stand up? The History and its recyclage 2012 4th December - Islamic Studies seminar27th November - Islamic Studies seminar27th November - MOSAIC Research Seminar20th November - Islamic Studies seminar13th November - Islamic Studies seminar13th November - MOSAIC Research Seminar6th-13th November - Islamic Studies seminar29th October - Biblical Studies Research Day23rd October - Islamic Studies seminar22nd October - The Fourth Annual Rabbi Tann Memorial Lecture16th October - Islamic Studies seminar9th October - Islamic Studies seminar9th October - Islamic Studies seminar8th October - The Mingana Collection and the Ancient Qur'anic Fragments4th October - Theology, Faith and the City Network: Urban Shifts6th June - Biblical Texts and Reception History: retrospect and prospects6th June - Professor Geza Vermes20th March - Kippur14th March - Applicant Visit Day6th-8th March - Lemon Tree6th-16th March - The Cadbury Lectures 201224th February - Middle East Symposium22nd February - Applicant Visit Day21st February - Biblical Studies Research Day13th-18th February - University community project to help young adults express their dreams