Religion in Public plays host and publicises a variety of events that take place at the University of Leeds as well as in the city. We also publish reviews of these events in order to disseminate key discussions and findings.
We have a fortnightly seminar series where speakers from inside and outside the University of Leeds present current research on any aspect of religion that, in one way or another, intersects with public life locally, nationally or internationally. The seminars are open to all with an academic interest in the study of religion and public life. See here for upcoming seminars for 2019/20. Unless indicated otherwise, seminars take place on Thursdays 11.30am-1pm, in the Botany house seminar room (1.03) on campus.
If you would like us to publicise your research event then please contact CRPL Research Intern, Hollie Gowan at jh09hgg@leeds.ac.uk
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You are warmly invited to attend the inaugural lecture of Professor Tendai Mangena, titled Disruptive Single Women: Gender and Sexuality among the Shona of Zimbabwe. Since 2023, Professor Mangena holds a four-year British Academy Global Professorship in African Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. At Leeds, she is associated with the Leeds University Centre...
The annual Hook Lecture returns this year as we welcome Revd Dr Inderjit Bhogal, former President of the British Methodist Conference, and Founder of the City of Sanctuary network and movement, passionately committed to the achievement of justice in immigration especially for people seeking sanctuary and refugees. Inderjit will tell the story of City of...
On 30th March, the Centre for Religion and Public Life is hosting a research seminar with Dr Stefan Skrimshire who will speak about: Liturgies of lament in contemporary religious eco-activism According to some broad definitions of “liturgy”, most political protests could be considered liturgical. But even by a narrower theological definition, I suggest that protest...
On 30th March, the Centre for Religion and Public Life is hosting a research seminar with Dr Aled Thomas who will speak about: "Squirreling is today destructive of a workable system”: Innovative and ‘heretical’ Scientology in the Free Zone In 1965 L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology (CoS), issued two bulletins...
In this seminar, jointly hosted by the Centre for Religion and Public Life and the Leeds University Centre for African Studies, Adriaan van Klinken (Professor of Religion and African Studies) will present some of the findings of the Sexuality and Religion in East Africa project. The project focuses on the role of religious leaders as...
On 2nd February, the Centre for Religion and Public Life is hosting a research seminar with Professor Andrew Thorpe, who will speak about Methodism and the British Labour movement, 1890-1939 Andrew Thorpe is Professor of Modern History, and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, at the University of Leeds. He is...
On 15th December, the Centre for Religion and Public Life is hosting a research seminar with Dr Gillian Chu (Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds), who will speak about #deltaδmovement: Hong Kong Christians’ Digital Communities Our world is constantly being reshaped as our daily lives move further online. In this day and age, how do...
On 1st December, the Centre for Religion and Public Life, with the Leeds University Centre for African Studies, is hosting a research seminar with Dr Mikel Burley (University of Leeds), who will speak about Conceptual Decolonization and Conceptual Justice: Critically Examining Proposals from Kwasi Wiredu and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Kwasi Wiredu (1931-2022) was a Ghanaian-born philosopher;...
On 17 November, the Centre for Religion and Public Life is hosting a research seminar with Dr Naomi Richman (University of Cambridge), who will speak about Theologies of Gender, Relationality and Power in a Nigerian Pentecostal church Bernice Martin’s ‘Pentecostal gender paradox’, which describes the seemingly contradictory place women hold in the Pentecostal movement has...
The Centre for Religion and Public Life is hosting a research seminar with Professor Alana Vincent (University of Chester / Umeå University), who will speak about: “Crisis and Ritual Creativity: Three Theses” The British Ritual under COVID-19 [BRIC-19] Project was a mixed method study which aimed to document and analyse the various creative ways that religious communities adapted to...