7 October 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…
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During a severely disrupted induction week this our new students acquainted themselves with the religious and philosophical landscape of Cheltenham by following a, ‘Walk of Faith and No faith’ map around the city centre. One group found themselves…
Read more8 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…
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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…
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