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This down-to-earth, glazed terracotta figurine of the Virgin could act as the focus of family prayers in a modest home

Animating objects: what material culture can tell us about domestic devotions

24 Oct 2017

Rustic figurines of a resigned-looking Virgin clutching her child may have no obvious literary or artistic merit to us today. But understanding what...

Opinion: What will happen when the Pope meets the Patriarch?

09 Feb 2016

John Pollard (Trinity Hall) discusses the relationship between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches, and what the meeting between their...

Sacramento Pride Parade, supporting the LGBT community, June 15 2013. The new study highlights the leadership of many Churches in the United States in shifting the balance of Christian attitudes towards trans people.

Global Christian attitudes towards transgenderism “softening”, study suggests

02 Dec 2015

A mapping exercise examining the positions of major Christian denominations on transgender identities suggests that a growing number of Churches...

Christopher Evans of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit shows local schoolchildren around the excavation site.

Earliest church in the tropics unearthed in former heart of Atlantic slave trade

06 Nov 2015

Remains of a church on Cabo Verde’s Santiago Island, off the West African coast, dates back to late 15th century – when Portugal first colonised the...

‘Intelligent Trust’, ethno-religious relations and the rise of the food bank

14 Feb 2014

Shana Cohen and Ed Kessler discuss how individuals of different ethno-religious backgrounds in Europe can learn to trust each other, and how...

Left: Image of Thomas Whytehead from St John’s College Chapel, Cambridge; Right: Portrait of John Colenso , Credit: Reproduced by permission of the Master and Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge

Private collection of Cambridge’s “heretic” bishop goes on show

03 Feb 2014

Letters and publications belonging to John Colenso, a 19th-century missionary who caused outrage for his sympathetic work with Zulus in South Africa...

Pope Benedict XVI prays in front of the image of Our Lady of Fatima after arriving to catholic Fatima shrine in central Portugal, May 12, 2010

No Curia for old age: the radical act of papal resignation

15 Feb 2013

Dr Sara Silvestri, a specialist in religion and politics and a Research Associate with the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, examines the...

Piety in the Renaissance Home

14 Jan 2013

The notion of the Renaissance as a ‘secular age’ is to be challenged by three University of Cambridge researchers after securing €2.3m funding from...