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		<title>The O of Giotto</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/05/15/the-o-of-giotto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew W. Hass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a great story about the Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) who is said to have won a Vatican contract from Pope Benedictus XII by submitting nothing more than a perfectly executed hand-drawn circle. The circle became famously &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/05/15/the-o-of-giotto/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A week with Professor Naomi Goldenberg</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/04/27/a-week-with-professor-naomi-goldenberg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Marten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Critical Religion Research Group has hosted Prof. Naomi Goldenberg from the University of Ottawa. We have organised a staff/postgraduate seminar for her in Stirling, taken her to Aberdeen for a conference organised by Dr Trevor Stack (of &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/04/27/a-week-with-professor-naomi-goldenberg/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Female Genius</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/04/16/female-genius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Jasper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Women today are far better off than women in the past. It’s time they shut up and stopped making so much fuss!&#8221; Many things have changed for the better over the last couple of centuries, but the evidence that women &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/04/16/female-genius/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gender and the Vestigial State of Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/04/10/gender-and-the-vestigial-state-of-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fawzia Koofi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest posting by Prof. Naomi Goldenberg, introducing some of the themes she will be addressing when she visits the UK in late April 2012. &#160; My interest in critical religion originates in my wish to restart the &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/04/10/gender-and-the-vestigial-state-of-religion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Media representations of &#8216;religion&#8217; in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/03/26/media-representations-of-religion-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Marten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is almost a truism to note that if the mainstream media is our only source of news regarding anything to do with religion (however that might be conceived) in the Middle East, or even the Middle East in general, &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/03/26/media-representations-of-religion-in-the-middle-east/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Archbishop Resigns</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/03/19/the-archbishop-resigns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/03/19/the-archbishop-resigns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Jasper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rowan Williams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What seems to have crystallised as the key to Archbishop Rowan Williams’ somewhat early resignation from his job as head of the global Anglican Communion is the issue of sexuality. Over the last ten years a great deal of heat &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/03/19/the-archbishop-resigns/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Argument for Thinking of Religions as Vestigial States</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/03/12/an-argument-for-thinking-of-religions-as-vestigial-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/03/12/an-argument-for-thinking-of-religions-as-vestigial-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>naomigoldenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[James Crawford]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest posting by Prof. Naomi Goldenberg, introducing some of the themes she will be addressing when she visits the UK in late April 2012. &#160; My work at present is focused on developing the hypothesis that religions &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/03/12/an-argument-for-thinking-of-religions-as-vestigial-states/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Daly: Impact or ‘Impact statements’?</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/02/21/simone-de-beauvoir-and-mary-daly-impact-or-impact-statements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/02/21/simone-de-beauvoir-and-mary-daly-impact-or-impact-statements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Jasper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the run up to the next round of assessment in UK Universities (the ‘Research Excellence Framework’ or REF, 2014) research is routinely being framed in terms of its ‘excellent impact’ as well as its academic value and viability. Impact &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/02/21/simone-de-beauvoir-and-mary-daly-impact-or-impact-statements/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The myth of religion and the tyranny of Richard Dawkins’ discontinuous mind</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/02/16/the-myth-of-religion-and-the-tyranny-of-richard-dawkins-discontinuous-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/02/16/the-myth-of-religion-and-the-tyranny-of-richard-dawkins-discontinuous-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his New Statesman article “The tyranny of the discontinuous mind” [NS 19 Dec 2011 – 1 Jan 2012] Richard Dawkins suggests how arbitrary our classificatory dividing lines are. And yet the substance of his arguments rests on precisely such &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/02/16/the-myth-of-religion-and-the-tyranny-of-richard-dawkins-discontinuous-mind/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming of Nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/02/13/the-coming-of-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/02/13/the-coming-of-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew W. Hass</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Nothing will come of nothing.” We have all heard this phrase before. It takes many forms, and has a history that precedes Plato. But we know it most familiarly as the words of Shakespeare’s Lear, that king who foolishly turned &#8230; <a href="http://www.criticalreligion.stir.ac.uk/2012/02/13/the-coming-of-nothing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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