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Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age

Discussion group We will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal...

Truth and the Rise of Popular Lies

Truth and the Rise of Popular Lies Part of the 'Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogue' series The situation was already grave in many developing countries and those ruled by authoritarian leaders, but now western democracies have found truth being undermined and popular lies often taking its place, especially in the digital world. The...

Dignity in the Islamic Tradition – Creation

Professor Edward Moad (Qatar University) will speak on the theme of 'Creation' in the second in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series. This four-part seminar series has been developed by the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, together with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and aims...

Imagining Christianity: Robert Browning’s Christmas Eve and Easter Day

The Christian Literary Imagination Series Continuing from the previous academic year, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function...

Recurring

Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age

Discussion group We will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal...

Dignity in the Islamic Tradition – The Human Being

Dr Afifi al-Akiti (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies) will speak on the theme of 'The Human Being' in the third in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series. This four-part seminar series has been developed by the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, together with the Oxford Centre...

HG Wells and the Apocalypse

The Christian Literary Imagination Series Continuing from the previous academic year, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function...

Recurring

Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age

Discussion group We will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal...

Dignity in the Islamic Tradition – Society

Dr Karim Lahham (Tabah Foundation) will speak on the theme of 'Society' in the fourth in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series. This four-part seminar series has been developed by the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, together with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and aims...

Recurring

Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age

Discussion group We will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal...