University of Kent

Religion Research Seminar, Spring 2010

20th January, 12 - 1pm, CNW 8

“Land and Gift: A Hermeneutical Approach to Political Economy”

Dr Todd Mei (University of Kent)

Religion Research Seminar, Spring 2010

10th February, 12 - 1pm, CNW 8

"The Myth of Leadership: How Cultural Discourses of Leadership Subvert"

Justin Lewis-Anthony (University of Kent)

SECL Distinguished Lecture, 10th March 5.15pm KLT5

“Prisons and Religions:  Britain and France"

Professor James Beckford (University of Warwick)

LECTURE: Professor Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen), will give the SECL Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday 14 October, KLT5, at 5.15pm on 'The Comparative Method: Why Postmodernists and Others Cannot Escape Operating Comparatively.'

LECTURE: Professor Jeremy Carette (University of Kent) will give the SECL Popular Lecture 'Is David Beckham a God?: Football as Religion' on Wednesday 9th December KLT5, at 5.15pm.

NEWS: Professor Jeremy Carette and Professor Hugh Miall in Politics and International Relations received a 520K (TBC) AHRC 'Religion and Society' Award to explore 'Religious Non-Governmental Organisations at the United Nations in New York and Geneva.' See SECL Grants page for more information.

RS Postgraduate Research Symposium 31st May - 1st June

see here for more details

Talk by Dr Roderick Main, 'Synchronicity and spirit in the I Ching' 30th May 2.00-5.00, RX11

Roger Woolger presentation Tuesday 11th March, Keynes seminar room 16, commencing 2pm

Mystical Body: Cosmic Christ

What sets Christianity apart from most other religions is the Mystery of the Incarnation:  that Jesus was both Man and God, and that His Being, as Corpus Christi, pervades the whole universe.  In a wide ranging talk, Dr Woolger will look at the Gnostic, Platonic and esoteric underpinnings of the Saint John`s teaching that "the Word was made flesh", and he will draw illuminating parallels from Kaballah`s Adam Kadmon and the Al Insanu l'Kamil or Perfect Man of Sufism.  Roger believes that only such a truly holistic vision of the Divine Cosmos can challenge the moribund effects of body-mind dualism, Western alientation from the Mother as materia, and our currently fashionable neurology-based psychologies.

Divination and Dialogue conference. October 2007

Film footage of the conference is available here.