• A guest lecture on Space Religion

    On Wednesday, December the 2nd, 2020, third year students in the “Religion in the 21st Century” module attended an online lecture and discussion session with the founder of Astronism, Cometan. Cometan provided us with a comprehensive overview (going back to prehistoric times!) of what is meant generally by space religion and more specifically, Astronism. This…

  • “Speaker’s Corner” in Jerusalem during the Second Temple Era

    “Speaker’s Corner” in Jerusalem during the Second Temple Era

    Today, as part of the new “Abrahamic Traditions” module, the first year students from both Secondary Religious Education + QTS and Education and Religion programmes participated in a roleplaying game reenacting different major religious groups that were current during the Second Temple period (roughly around 0 C.E.). The students were stunningly dressed in makeshift costumes…

  • Visit to Tübingen

    This summer I spent around ten days as a visiting lecturer at Centre for Islamic Theology the University of Tübingen, located on the edge of the beautiful and mysterious Black Forest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The University of Tübingen, now also known as Eberhard Karls University, was founded in 1477, and has a long-standing…