By Olivia Wilkinson, Emma Tomalin and Jennifer Philippa Eggert This blog post is the first one in a series that captures some of the learning that took place during three roundtables that we organised at the Annual Conference of the Development Studies Association in June 2021. The roundtables brought together...
In this blog post, historian Dr Bethany Rowley writes about an often-overlooked part of Leeds’ religious history: the response of Christian and Jewish charities to the needs of disabled veterans in the aftermath of the First World War. Based on her archival research, she demonstrates that Leeds was a picture...
Dr Xavier Moyet is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds. He also is a research associate of the Pneuma City project at the University of Kent. Like countries across the world, Nigeria has been hit by the current COVID-19...
CRPL researcher Dr Jasjit Singh writes about the findings of his recently completed research project on Sikh radicalisation in Britain, the report of which was published last week. He found very little evidence of religious radicalisation but did find that Sikh activism in Britain actually contributes positively to integration and...
The emergence of anti-homosexuality politics in Africa is often explained with reference to religion. Although religion is a major factor in fuelling homophobia in Africa, the Bible and the Christian faith are not only sites of struggle but have also been appropriated by African LGBT activists in support of their cause. Adriaan...
by Dr Tasia Scrutton Last Tuesday was the first day of Lent, the forty days in which Christians observe the temptation and testing of Jesus in the desert by the devil, interpreted by some Christians in literal and others in metaphorical, usually psychological, terms. On the same day, newspapers reported...