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Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Daly: Impact or ‘Impact statements’?
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Religion, University of Stirling
Tagged Critical Religion, feminism, gender, impact, Mary Daly, REF, Simone de Beauvoir, university, woman
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Mission studies, mission history, and the language of religious conversion
For those of us researching mission history, as much of my own research could appropriately be characterised, there are recurring questions about how to approach the issues raised. Coming as I do from a liberal Enlightenment university tradition, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Religion, University of Stirling
Tagged conversion, Critical Religion, culture change, language of Christianisation, liberal education, mission, mission history, power, university
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Musicology and philosophy, religion and political science – the issue of interdisciplinarity
I have for some time been reflecting on why it is that so few ‘secular’ scholars engage meaningfully with ‘religion’, or to put it another way: why is it that so many of us as religion scholars depend upon and … Continue reading
The Role of the University Amplified
I return to the topic of the role of the University, addressed in my first blog (31 January 2011), because of several recent events. The first gave me reason for great applause: the 2011 Gifford Lecture (31st May), in the … Continue reading
On Theory and Practice in Religious Studies
This is the first time I have ever ‘blogged’. In fact the latter word was so new to my PC that I had to add it to the dictionary in the software. In the course of the past two decade … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Religion, University of Stirling
Tagged body, Critical Religion, culture change, decathexis, managerialism, religious studies, spiritualities, theology, university
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What is a University for?
The University is in a crisis. Even casual readers of the broadsheets know this. But the crisis is not what most people think, including those who run the University itself. The crisis is not that the University is underfunded, and … Continue reading
