Religion, Philosophy & Ethics
The RPE course at the University of Gloucestershire.
The RPE course at the University of Gloucestershire.
8 September 2020
What is money? We all use money every day, yet it is the most mysterious of commodities. It can be bought and sold like everything else (think of the currency markets) but it is also the medium through…
Read more7 September 2020
As well as attaining 100% overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey, the department for Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at University of Gloucestershire has been rated 7th in the national Guardian league table for the subject area…
Read more4 September 2020
Nowadays we tend to think of philosophy as an academic discipline you study in university and that to be a philosopher is to be a professor of philosophy. But that is not always how it has been, according…
Read more3 July 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/03/keeping-the-faith-religion-in-the-uk-amid-coronavirus?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other This is a great pictorial journey through the lockdown experience from a religious perspective (click on to the above link). Three months without congregational worship may have been hard for many but there have been some that…
Read more25 June 2020
https://theconversation.com/dark-tourism-memorial-sites-will-help-us-heal-from-the-trauma-of-coronavirus-139164 (The above image is that of Renwick Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island) How long should we remember the dead? Why are some events represented in the way that they are and others forgotten or conveniently disregarded? After…
Read more23 June 2020
Its an interesting thought…but however you look at it, Yoga, in whatever form it takes, from whichever tradition it draws its lineage from (or not) is reputed to have both curative and preventative qualities. It may not provide…
Read more1 June 2020
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/01/business/rio-tinto-pilbara-sacred-site-intl-hnk-scli/index.html When I first read Bruce Chatwin’s widely acclaimed The Songlines (1987), probably in the mid-nineties, I was not so much interested in its literary merits but more in the fact that in part it was an account…
Read more25 May 2020
Has there ever been a time when it was more important to be able to discuss, debate and argue about the place of ethics in the world today, in a balanced and informed manner? Learn to tools of…
Read more24 May 2020
In a number of recent reports Al Jazeera had highlighted a the unsettling ways in which Covid 19 has been used to justify populist government policies that target and use as scapegoats minority Muslim communities. According to the…
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