8 February 2023
We were really fortunate to host our close friends form ISKCON Wales again this week. Rohini and fellow devotees joined us and spoke the Level 5 students about the ISKCON response to the current environmental crisis and the…
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We are on our way again, across the universe to India. That’s right, students of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics are heading off to India on 16th Feb for a week of intense immersion into the Indian religious landscape….
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Welcome to Religion, Philosophy and Ethics Induction week. Its been great welcoming our new students to the University and introducing them to our beautiful campus, to the course and to each other. This week as well as the…
Read more26 March 2022
This week second year Religion Philosophy and Ethics students hosted Dr Abdalla (OBE) and Prof. Asim from the Onyx Link Interfaith Foundation (https://onyxlinkfoundation.org) based in Newport Wales. In keeping with the overall ethos of the course the object…
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First year Students from the Religion, Philosophy and Ethics course at University of Gloucestershire were offered a real insight in to the New Kadampa Buddhist tradition when they visited the Akanishta Kadampa Buddhist Centre in Cheltenham (meditationincheltenham.org.uk –…
Read more14 March 2022
A couple of posts ago I featured a meeting that I had with a Krishna archarya called Para who runs a prasadam food distribution to those who need it in the heart of London. Over the last fortnight…
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After two years of social distancing and Covid mitigation the level 4 Religion, Philosophy and Ethics students were finally able to physically visit the Cheltenham Hindu Mandir. It was very much worth the wait and Teams online visit,…
Read more3 March 2022
As an active researcher in the field of contemporary religion as well as lecturer in Hinduism at the University of Gloucestershire I have been privileged to work with a number of contemporary Hindu traditions in The U.K. New…
Read more19 February 2022
AS part of our Contemporary Religious Landscapes module Level 4 students were invited to join members of the Cheltenham Jewish community this week. Now most social distancing mitigation has been relaxed students were welcomed in to the Cheltenham…
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