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  • 16 Mar 2013
    A new pope: headlines are simple; the truth is complex

    When Pope Francis first emerged into the blinking glare of global publicity, most people had little idea who he was, says Simon Barrow. The initial attempts to fill the media void with headlines, soundbites and images still leaves us bereft of deeper understanding. We need time to grow that, and to realise that it is the fruits of action rather than heated rhetoric that will get us closer to the complexity of truth.

  • 20 Feb 2013
    What kind of pope? Benedict XVI and beyond

    How are we to assess Pope Benedict XVI? What does his time as pontiff say about the present and future of the papacy? Weaving his way adroitly through a recent sea-wave of both condemnation and adulation, Armenian Orthodox ecumenical consultant Dr Harry Hagopian, who is also an Ekklesia associate, finds himself in agreement on many points with third-wave feminist critic Joumana Haddad, while also feeling that graciousness and acknowledgement of Benedict's strengths - including his theological reflections - better serves the cause of forward movement inside and outside the Church.

  • 18 Dec 2012
    Religion, feminism and gender-making theory

    What are some of the implications of the discussion of critical religion for feminist and gender theory making? The gendered binaries of spiritual/material or spirit/flesh still haunt us, says Dr Alison Jasper, in the tendency to regard women and the female as better fitted for certain roles that tend to be less well rewarded in terms of money and influence.

  • 6 Nov 2012
    Chinese women’s rights activist sent to labour camp

    A prominent Chinese women’s rights activist, Mao Hengfeng, has been sentenced to one-and-a-half years in a labour camp, amid protests.

  • 21 Aug 2012
    Fresh perspectives offered on women reshaping religion

    An Edinburgh festival discussion has sought to look at how women’s experience can reshape what gets labelled ‘religion’ in fresh, positive ways.

  • 21 Aug 2012
    Reconsidering women in relation to religion

    Women's' experience and feminist theology has asked deep and difficult questions about the role of women within and across all of the world's religions.

  • 25 Apr 2012
    Professor Naomi Goldenberg lecture in Bloomsbury to be 'tweetcast'

    Professor Naomi Goldenberg (University of Ottawa) gives her public lecture in London on Thursday 26 April 2012, as part of her short tour in Scotland and England.

  • 21 Apr 2012
    Livening up the 'religion debate'
  • 21 Apr 2012
    Are religions 'remnant states' within the contemporary nation?

    A radical religion scholar from Canada is coming to Britain this week, to contribute to developing debates about the place of religion in public life.

  • 20 Apr 2012
    Visiting scholar questions the modern place of religion

    Professor Naomi Goldenberg, from the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, is visiting Britain this coming week (21 – 28 April 2012) to give public and university addresses in Stirling, Aberdeen and London.