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Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies (CARTS)Senior seminars at DivinityDuring every term, senior seminars are held regularly. Please download the following PDFs to see what is on, who is speaking, where, and when, during this term:
The MSt/CJCR Seminars are open to all students doing a PhD, an MPhil, or the third year of the Tripos are welcome to attend, as are members of the faculty. Graduate Reading Group: West-Semitic Epigraphy for Easter Term 2010 will be run by Dr. Jonathan Stokl. All meetings (alternate weeks on Wednesday at 1pm on 28/4, 12/5, 26/5 and 09/6) will take place at 1pm in Room 7 of the Divinity Faculty. There are no senior seminars during vacations. Current projects
The Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies CARTS) was established in January 1995 within the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge, with its own Committee of Management. Its Director is Professor David Thompson and its Coordinator/Administrator Dr Peter Harland. AimsCARTS has two complementary aims. The first is to focus the Faculty's interests on current issues of social and ethical significance to the living religious traditions. The second is to sponsor and coordinate research projects which will involve visiting scholars from all parts of the world with the Faculty's own staff. Such research projects will be related to the Faculty's particular concerns in scriptural, linguistic, doctrinal and philosophical issues. The Centre is therefore the Faculty's focus for cooperation with other faculties, universities and organisations in all parts of the world. The work of CARTSThe Centre's work is carried on in several ways. First, members of the Faculty of Divinity are involved in research projects to further the objects of the Centre. Secondly, there is a small group of Visiting Fellows, normally resident for periods of between six months and a year, who are involved in collaborative projects with scholars in Cambridge or a related work of their own. Thirdly, there is a programme of colloquia, seminars and lectures, which will enable other overseas scholars to visit for shorter periods, and contribute to the work of the Centre in that way. At present there is no single institution or centre in Europe where scholars from the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, Christian and non-Christian religions, Europe, North America and the non-Western world can, on a continuing basis, work together from their different perspectives on key religious issues. Scholars around the world have expressed interest in being linked to the work of the Centre. A unique opportunity therefore exists to bring the international community of scholars together to work on questions of common concern. Links to the Faculty of DivinityAlthough historically the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge originated in a Christian (and after the Reformation an Anglican) context, membership of the Faculty has not been restricted to any one faith or denomination since the removal of religious tests in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The current Faculty includes members of the Church of England, Roman Catholic and Free Churches, a Jewish Rabbi and a Muslim. As well as Teaching Officers of the Faculty of Divinity, the teaching staff of the Cambridge Theological Federation are members of the Faculty and able to participate in CARTS projects. There are no religious affiliation requirements for appointment in the Faculty, and the same principle applies in relation to appointments within CARTS. What is required is a commitment to the principles of academic integrity and the pursuit of truth in all research projects. The Faculty also has links with the Faculties of Oriental Studies, Classics and History, and the Centres for African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. The Teape Lectures, given under the auspices of the Cambridge Committee for Christian Work in Delhi, represent a long-standing commitment to the study of Christian work in Asia, and the Henry Martyn Lectures on mission studies reflect a similar tradition without being confined to Asia. The University Library has considerable resources, particularly for Asia, and has recently acquired the Royal Commonwealth Society Library as well as housing the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Henry Martyn Library, based, like the North Atlantic Missiology Project, in Westminster College, contains many books not available in the University Library. Programmes within CARTSResearch projects which require external funding will normally have a Project Director and a Research Assistant. Where a project has funding for more than three years, the Project Director will have the opportunity to supervise graduate students in the Faculty. There may also be opportunities to participate in the undergraduate teaching in the Faculty. Whilst the Centre exists to facilitate collaborative projects between persons in different countries and in particular to encourage interdisciplinary projects, any well-argued case for a project in the field of Theological and Religious Studies can be considered. Thus far the Centre's work has fallen into several broadly-defined programmes: Biblical Studies, Missions and World Christianity, Christianity and the Natural Sciences, Organisational Development in the Churches, Interreligious Dialogue, and Indian Religions. It is hoped that further programmes may be added in the future. Some former projectsThese are all old pages and may not be written in valid XML, or have been designed with accessibility in mind.
The following pages are also available on topics of general interest within CARTS:
Contact detailsDirector: Projects Coordinator and CARTS Administrator: |