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2017
March
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Religious Studies Research Seminar
-Dr Sara Kuehn (Vienna), "The Snake Genius in the Roman Domestic Cult"
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Centre for the Study of Myth: Visting speaker
-Speaker: Dr Sara Kuehn Affiliation: University of Vienna Title: “Animal-Human Hybrids in Visual and Textual Representation” Abstract: Conceptions of hybrid creatures continue to intrigue, and to challenge our understanding of representations of the divine. Where depicted or described, they are often morphologically anomalous and specifically composite, comprising a combination of human and/or various...
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Religious Studies Research Seminar
-(co-sponsored with CISRUL) Dr Naomi Haynes (Edinburgh), “The Benefit of the Doubt: On the Relationship Between Doubt and Power”
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Research Seminar in Systematic Theology
-This seminar offers an opportunity for sustained reading of and engagement with one of the most important figures in the Lutheran Reformation and with one of the earliest systematic works in the Lutheran tradition – Philip Melanchthon’s Loci Communes of 1521. Text: Philip Melanchthon, Commonplaces (Loci Communes 1521), Translated by Christian...
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Joint Research Seminar for Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics
-This seminar will take place on Monday from 3.15 pm to 4.45 pm in the Divinity Library in King’s College. All are welcome, and it is expected that Masters and PhD students in Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics will attend regularly. 13th March: Chris Brittain, ‘Partnership not Dialogue: Lent...
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Religious Studies Research Seminar
-Prof Kecia Ali (Boston), "Contesting Muhammad" Following her research into how the biography of Muhammad has developed as a genre since the seventh century to current times, Prof Ali concludes that “In the twenty-first century, it makes no sense to speak of Muslim views of Muhammad in opposition to Western or Christian...
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Research Seminar in Systematic Theology
-This seminar offers an opportunity for sustained reading of and engagement with one of the most important figures in the Lutheran Reformation and with one of the earliest systematic works in the Lutheran tradition – Philip Melanchthon’s Loci Communes of 1521. Text: Philip Melanchthon, Commonplaces (Loci Communes 1521), Translated by Christian...
February
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Religious Studies Research Seminar
-Dr Seyed Mustafa Azmayesh (the Nematollahi-Gonabadi Sufi order)
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Religious Studies Research Seminar
-Ms Maria Nau (Aberdeen), "Berber women"
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Old Testament Research Seminar
-Our guest speaker will be Professor Hanna Liss, Hochschule fuer Juedische Studien in Heidelberg. She will give a paper on "Scholarly Knowledge, Drollery or Esotericism? The Masorah of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Western Europe as an Exegetical Tool". In religious literary works, in particular in the...