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Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

FMR 48 - Faith and the politics of resettlement

For some asylum seekers in Turkey, conversion may be an opportunistic strategy to improve resettlement prospects.

FMR 48 - Principles and proselytising: good practice in Ethiopia

Faith-based organisations need to ensure that in providing essential humanitarian assistance they do not exploit the vulnerability of people by proselytising, whether overtly or covertly.

FMR 48 - Jewish roots of humanitarian assistance

The act of assistance is an act of respect for the humanity of others and is not the preserve of any one faith.

FMR 48 - Chins in Mizoram state, India: a faith-based response

The faith community in Mizoram state in India has played an instrumental role in providing social services, changing perceptions of refugees, and providing access and assistance, reaching the most vulnerable where there's no international presence.

FMR 48 - Engaging IDPs in Sri Lanka: a Buddhist approach

A Buddhist Sri Lankan NGO provides an example of how endogenous faith-based civil society organisations can help mobilise IDPs in owning and defining strategies for their own protection. - See more at: http://www.fmreview.org/faith/contents#sthash.Ktl8olu

FMR 48 - An ecumenical organisation for asylum seekers in Switzerland

An ecumenical organisation provides socio-pastoral assistance for asylum seekers while they go through the first crucial steps of the asylum proceedings.

FMR 48 - African refugees and the particular role of churches in the UK

Many churches have the necessary physical and social assets to assist refugees in the community both individually and by bringing them together.

FMR 48 - Post-disaster recovery and support in Japan

As a locally based faith-based organisation, there were several aspects that enabled Soka Gakkai to contribute effectively to the relief effort following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, responding to both physical and psychological needs.

FMR 48: ‘Welcoming the stranger’ and UNHCR’s cooperation with faith-based organisations

Since its creation in 1950, UNHCR has engaged with faith-based organisations, faith communities and faith leaders in carrying out its work. Recently, UNHCR has been more actively exploring the role of faith in humanitarian responses.

FMR 48 - What’s faith got to do with it?

Use of the faith-based label demands greater clarification lest it lose coherence and result in adverse policy implications, excluding religiously motivated actors from providing much-needed assistance to displaced communities, particularly inside Syria.

How to protect your newborn from neonatal death: spirits and infant feeding practices in the Gambia

A seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Group by Sarah O'Neill of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (10 November 2014)

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Faith and Wisdom in Science

A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Tom McLeish, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie and Ard A. Louis

Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment

Skeptical Theism and the Future

First talk given by Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.

Foundations for an Accuracy-based Approach to Imprecise Credence

Second talk given by Jason Konek (Bristol) and Billy Dunaway (Oxford) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.

Divine Indifference, or Whatever

Third talk given by Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.

Against the Orthodoxy: Rethinking Epistemic Reasons and Pascal's Wager

Fourth talk given by Rima Basu (USC) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.

Salvaging Pascal's Wager

Fifth talk given by Liz Jackson (Nortre Dame) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.

Updating on Evil

Sixth and final talk given by Professor Roger White (MIT) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.

Can there be an anthropology of Hinduism?

A discussion of the anthropology of Hinduism and the difficulties of categorizing religion. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by David Gellner of Oxford (5 December 2014)

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahwari Politics of Survivial [Book event]

Seminar given on 22 October 2014 by Dr Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University College London and the Refugee Studies Centre), part of the RSC Michaelmas term 2014 Public Seminar Series.

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