Collaborations

Through its triple structure CRIS collaborates with similarly motivated Christian, Muslim and Jewish academic initiatives around the world and local in realising its vision and goals.

I. CRIS joint vision and Collaboration with CUPRiH

The University of Cambridge has established its Project for Religions in the Humanities (CUPRH). The Project seeks to change the intellectual climate by promoting the inter-disciplinary study of religion and religious questions, and embedding such study in multiple university Departments. The Cambridge University Project for Religions in the Humanities project is overseen at the level of the Council for the School of Arts and Humanities and the Council for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and is initially led by a project team, chaired by CU Professor Simon Goldhill.

The project promotes internal Cambridge collaboration between three institutional dimensions:  Faculties, Colleges, and CRASSH (the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities).

Collaboration with Tel Aviv University’s Centre for Religious and Interreligious Studies takes the CUPRH project to a new level.  The collaboration between Tel Aviv University and the University of Cambridge allows for both scholars and students to visit for periods of study and teaching in both directions. It enables joint academic conferences at the highest level. Fist such conference dedicated to the topic of Religion and Violence has taken place in winter 2012, followed by a conference on Holy War and Sacred Struggle in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in June 2013.