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Anglo-Jewish Music-Making: Synagogue, Stage, Society
'Anglo-Jewish Music-Making' explores the everyday musical life of nineteenth-century British Jews, and those involved in Jewish musical activities, sacred and secular, professional and amateur.
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Mental Health Project
A research and public education project to study mental health from an interfaith perspective. The project combines the development of public educational materials on faith, interfaith and mental health with a policy-related study on mental health and British Muslim communities.
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Antisemitism Online
Using innovative social media data analysis tools, the study addresses various questions concerning the extent online forms of antisemitism using social media data gathered from Google, Instagram and Twitter.
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British Islam and English Law
This project aims to place the fraught relationship between English civil law and British Islam on a more principled and practical footing.
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The Diversity Study of England and Wales
The Diversity Study of England and Wales is large-scale study of the public's attitudes towards ethnic, national and religious diversity and their experiences of it.
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Documentary History of Jewish-Christian Relations: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
This is the first comprehensive attempt to gather up to 200 key primary documents, which shed light not only on the theological context, but also on the social, political, economic and other contexts, which are central to Jewish-Christian relations.
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Forgiveness and Future-building
This new 2-year project will explore cultural and religious variations of forgiveness and how they impact post-conflict societies (Northern Ireland, Bosnia and South Sudan). The project will also include the development of an AI model that policymakers can use as a tool.
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Late Judaeo-Arabic Correspondence of Ottoman Traders
This project examines documentary Late Judaeo-Arabic, the most important mode of communication for the widespread network of the Jewish traders in the late Mamluk and Ottoman periods.
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Living in Harmony: Music, Memory and Encounters between Jewish, Muslim and Christian Neighbours
The Living in Harmony program is generously funded by the KC Shasha Charitable Foundation and Dangoor Education. A continuation of the original Living in Harmony research project, the project focuses on conducting workshops in schools across Britain to enhance a sense of commonality among faith and non-faith communities living in Britain today.
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Measures of Success: Evaluating the Impact of Interfaith Dialogue
The overall aim of this two-year research project is to develop a set of indicators that measure the impact of direct and grassroots interreligious dialogue initiatives.
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Measures of Success: a Toolkit for the Evaluation of Interfaith Engagement
A practical toolkit designed to help interfaith organisations measure their impact at a grassroots level. The Toolkit is now available free of charge for download.
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Qur'an and Bible - Summary and Results
The Qur'an and Bible project seeks to explore the relationship between the two scriptures, and their similarities and differences.
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Religious Sisterhood: Encounters of Gender, Religion and Belonging in the UK
This ethnographic study focuses on the emergence of grassroot female interfaith initiatives, analysing the creative ways religious women negotiate their challenges and struggles as women of faith, together.
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Transmission and Trust: The Impact of COVID-19 on British Jewish and British Muslim Communities
The Woolf Institute has collected nationally-representative survey data to study the impact of COVID-19 on British Jewish and British Muslim communities.
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Wisdom and Greatness in One Place: the 15th-c. Alexandrian Trader Moses Ben Judah and His Circle
Together with her colleague Dotan Arad (Bar Ilan University), Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner is currently preparing an edition of mercantile letters from 15th-century Alexandria, which are part of the manuscript collections in the Bodleian.