Category Archives: Contending Modernities

Politics of Faith leads to Politics of Action

Ruhana Ali is the Tower Hamlets Organiser for London Citizens, and part of the Contextual Theology Centre team of researchers on the Contending Modernities project in east London.  Here she blogs for us on how different faiths in London are holding … Continue reading

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LONDON 2012: International, national, and ?

Jellicoe intern and researcher Caitlin Burbridge reflects on the impact of the Olympics on its host boroughs, and highlights two exciting projects in which local churches are playing a leading role.  As London prepares for its ‘cultural Olympiad’, it seems fitting to look … Continue reading

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Multiculturalism: a Christian retrieval

“Is it possible for a society marked by deep ethnic and religious diversity to identify a workable framework for deep diversity which does justice to all communities?” Answering this question is the burden of Jonathan Chaplin’s recent Theos booklet entitled … Continue reading

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Contending Modernities in east London

Contextual Theology Centre Director Angus Ritchie has just written on the University of Notre Dame’s Contending Modernities blog about exciting research project the Centre is undertaking as part of that wider programme. He outlines the project as follows: How do … Continue reading

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An Advent call to act on the debate about money

Contextual Theology Centre Director Angus Ritchie has written in the latest Church Times on the ‘striking echoes’ of the liturgies in St Paul’s Cathedral and the Occupy LSX encampment outside.  The article was timed to coincide with the Centre’s new … Continue reading

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