-
Fieldwork in Religion: Going Out and Finding Out
This last week has been very busy for our undergraduate students, who have benefitted from meeting and engaging with local faith communities. Year 2 Ethnography students are currently engaged in their own fieldwork projects, exploring a range of topics including witchcraft, perspectives on the after life in a care home, life in a convent, challenges […]
-
Doing Diwali
Our Year 1 Undergraduates visited a Primary school recently to deliver a day on Diwali as part of their Hindu Dharma Unit. Here is what one of them, Amy, wrote about the experience: The day started with meeting in the staff room to make sure that we had everything ready and organized for the day […]
-
Doing Diwali
It has now become a tradition for Year 1 Edge Hill University undergraduate students who are studying teaching and RE to visit Blackbrook St Mary’s Primary School. Again this year we were asked to visit and perform the story of Diwali. We had prepared the week before learning our lines and setting up the […]
-
Year One Undergraduate experience of Hindu Dharma
At Edge Hill University we believe that to really begin to understand a Religion it is vital that we visit religious communities and meet with devotees. In this academic year for the Hindu Dharma module this began on Monday 4th of November when the Year One Undergraduate RE group attended Diwali celebrations at the BAPS […]
