Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies
project: The Cairo Genizah manuscripts: Taylor-Schechter Old Series and the Mosseri Collection
Grant Holder: Dr Ben Outhwaite
The project aims to complete the cataloguing and detailed description of the Old Series of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection and a substantial proportion of the Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection. The T-S Collection consists of approx. 193,000 medieval (and early modern) Jewish manuscripts recovered from a storeroom (Genizah) in Old Cairo one hundred years ago, and is an unparalleled resource for the study of medieval Judaism, Islam and the history of the Mediterranean and Near East in the Middle Ages. The Old Series is the historical core of the Collection, and approx. [read more]
project: Religious nurture in Muslim families
Grant Holder: Dr Jonathan Scourfield
Qualitative sociological research about how children aged 12 and under are brought up to be Muslims. The School of Social Sciences and the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK conducted a joint research project. The first stage was secondary analysis of the 2003 Home Office Citizenship Survey to compare rates of religious transmission in different groups. The research team then conducted original qualitative research with 60 Muslim families in Cardiff. This involved semi-structured interviews, children keeping audio and photographic diaries and some observation of formal learning. [read more]
project: Sudamih (Supporting Data Management Infrastructure for the Humanities)
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The Supporting Data Management Infrastructure for the Humanities (Sudamih) Project aims to address a coherent range of requirements for the more effective management of data (broadly defined) within the Humanities at an institutional level. Whilst the project is fully embedded within the institutional context of Oxford University, the methodologies, outputs and outcomes will be of relevance to other research-led universities, especially but not only, in their support of research within the humanities. [read more]
project: An online centre for British data on religion (British Religion in Numbers: BRIN)
Grant Holder: David Voas
Data can tell us much about religious changes falling below the radar of public policy and media debate. The database makes the enormous body of religious statistics in Britain from the last four centuries accessible to ordinary researchers and research users. [read more]
project: Glasgow Emblem Digitisation Project
Grant Holder: Professor Alison Adams
The site has been developed, with generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Resource Enhancement Scheme, by a team led by Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Jonathan Spangler, and Project Director Alison Adams. All but two of the emblem books digitised are from the Stirling Maxwell Collection in Glasgow University Library. The Bodleian Library and the Bibliothèque Mazarine have generously made material available to enable us to present the complete corpus. The Project is undertaken within the OpenEmblem initiative. [read more]
project: Marginalized Spiritualities: faith and religion among young people in socially deprived Britain
Grant Holder: Dr Elizabeth Olson
The aim of this project is to investigate religiosity, religious identity, and spirituality among young people living in socially deprived Britain. Participants will include religious, non-religious and spiritually-seeking youth, who will be involved in the production of multimedia narratives. This comprises one strand of the project’s data collection and dissemination strategy, and provides multimedia and information technology literacy and a space for potential empowerment of young people. [read more]
project: Regnum Francorum Online
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Regnum Francorum Online: interactive maps and sources of early medieval Europe, is a geospatial database with the aim of referencing historical events of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval (western) Europe to evidence in source-documents, compiling meta-data about the events, such as time, space and agency, and visualizing the events on interactive maps. This far, meta-data about more than 14.000 events are maintained in the database and avilable for further temporal and spatial analysis. [read more]