🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Religion as culture of resistance: Rebel Christians, XR Buddhists & Eco-Pagans in Maria Nita’s blog about ritualised protests in the UK climate movement www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religi... @thebasr @informreligion @OU_FASS

Artwork by Haitian Jacques-Richard Chery, Walcot Methodist Church, Bath

Today (Weds 24 Sept) from 09:30, the fourth of seven new OU/BBC Morning Live films will air, exploring Future Faith. www.bbc.com/programmes/m...

Walcot Methodist Church, Bath

Multifaith area in carpark at Bristol Airport

Multi faith area within Bristol Airport, primarily geared towards Muslim users.

Austen events at Bath Abbey!

Glastonbury Anglican Pilgrimage Glastonbury Abbey

The Glastonbury Unity Candle took part in the Catholic Clifton Diocesan Pilgrimage procession

Anglican Glastonbury Pilgrimage Programme and wristband, 2025

Annapolis Royal claims to be birthplace of Freemasonry in Canada

🚨 New blog post by Paul-Francois Tremlett! 🚨 The tragic death of #DiogoJota drew immense grief, while vast losses in wars seem to remain harder to mourn. What does this say about grief? Freud’s “displacement” offers one answer www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religi... @thebasr @OU_FASS @bloomsburyrs

Sign at Baptist Church, Nova Scotia, Canada

The town of Portmerion in North Wales is most famous for the TV show #Theprisoner in the 1960s. However, it is also home to the Bristol colonnade built around 1760 by the Quaker William reeve and is full of classical allusions. Part 3.

The town of Portmerion in North Wales is most famous for the TV show #Theprisoner in the 1960s. However, it is also home to the Bristol colonnade built around 1760 by the Quaker William reeve and is full of classical allusions. Part 2.

The town of Portmerion in North Wales is most famous for the TV show #Theprisoner in the 1960s. However, it is also home to the Bristol colonnade built around 1760 by the Quaker William reeve and is full of classical allusions. Part 1.

Shopfront in Dunkeld #savethebees

Van parked at Glastonbury

Solstice Tree, Kennett and Avon Canal, Bath Created on the canal bank, encouraging people to write and hang up aspirations, much like prayer trees #Solstice

On solstice day, revisit Maria Nita’s blog on "Solstice in the Anthropocene": “Solstice revival has always been culturally subversive, creating space for change, which has never been more urgent than in the Anthropocene.” https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religious-studies/?p=1517 #Solstice #Anthropocene

What’s the most-read and best-selling book of all time? The Bible! An estimated 5 to 7 billion copies sold worldwide. 📖 The Faith Mission Bookshop in Belfast is one of many places you can pick one up #Bible #Bestseller What do you think is the second best-selling book?

What do you think you see in this photo taken on the way to Meiji Jingu Shrine, Tokyo? Vases, lanterns, or paper lamps? Actually, these are rows of sake barrels offered by brewers across Japan to honor the gods #MeijiShrine

Hakone Shrine, Japan The most famous viewpoint at Hakone Shrine is the Heiwa no Torii (Peace Torii), where the shrine appears to extend into Lake Ashi. This location is believed to symbolise the boundary between the human world and the divine. #Hakoneshrine #Hakone

Opening plenary of the SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) 2025 conference on the theme of Unwriting. Around 700 in the lecture theatre!

Examples of Icons on Ammo Boxes, sold to raise money for frontline medical aid in Ukraine, on display at Aberdeen University in connection with SIEF conference

In Belfast, walls talk. This week, we dive into religion and street art in a city known for its powerful murals and visual storytelling.⁠ ⁠ Day 3. The Workers' Party is a Marxist–Leninist, Irish republican party active in the city, where secularism is at the core of its values

In Belfast, walls talk. This week, we dive into religion and street art in a city known for its powerful murals and visual storytelling.⁠ ⁠ Day 2. "CRANN GO BEATHA–TREE OF LIFE". The centre aims to empower and encourage the socially isolated and physically disabled in the city

In Belfast, walls talk. This week, we dive into religion and street art in a city known for its powerful murals and visual storytelling. Day 1. Oscar Romero, Catholic saint and human rights activist in El Salvador, is an honored figure in the city's Catholic community #Belfast #Murals

📢 #BASR2025 CfP is still open! Theme: Religion, Space and Place. Dont forget to apply! This year’s online, one-day BASR conference (hosted by @OpenUniversity) runs alongside #IAHR2025 in Krakow. Submit by June 9: [email protected] basr.ac.uk/2024/01/11/b...

Looks like graffiti, but it’s a mosaic - blending early Christian iconography with modern elements, Edinburgh

The Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China. These clay sculptures of soldiers were buried with China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, around 210–209 BCE to protect him in the afterlife.

Scotland had the highest number of witch trials in the UK, marked by church-led violence, both Protestant and Catholic, against marginalised people, disproportionately targeting women. Here is the memorial to the Peebleshire women and men prosecuted for Witchcraft, Peebles.

🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Learn about "Filmmaking and Lego: Workshop exploring creative pedagogies for promoting religious tolerance and diversity in schools" and an upcoming free workshop on June 24th at Milton Keynes www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religi... @informreligion @OU_FASS @OpenUniversity

Spring themed yarn art, Balloch

Beltane parade on the High Street, Glastonbury. The Maypole being btrought to the Town Hall. Note the name of the shop in the background, taken from Richard Cavendish's famous 1970s partwork compendium of the supernatural, religion and mythology.

Beltane parade on the High Street, Glastonbury. Notice the "Zen Computers" in the background

UniChurch in Belfast, "Alcohol Free Area"

Christian Climate Action and XR Buddhists hold protest vigil

Baltane in Glastonbury

🚨 New blog post! 🚨 The OU Religious Studies Department is excited to be the lead partner on a new John Templeton Foundation grant, ‘New Religiosity and the Digital Study of Eudaimonia.’ Learn more here: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religi... @thebasr @informreligion @OU_FASS @bloomsburyrs

Yoga centre in Manchester city centre

Glasgow Airport Chaplaincy

📢 #BASR2025 CfP is open! Theme: Religion, Space and Place. This year’s online, one-day BASR conference (hosted by @OpenUniversity) runs alongside #IAHR2025 in Krakow. Submit by June 9: [email protected]

🚨 New blog post! 🚨 What does it mean to have to leave your country of birth because of your religious identity? Read a timely blog "The Reformation of the Refugees" by Dr Niall Oddy on the relationship between nationhood and religion www.open.ac.uk/blogs/religi... @thebasr @OU_FASS @bloomsburyrs

"Hug-me" tree, London

Glasgow Airport prayer room

Karl Marx, who famously said "Religion is the opium of the people," at Highgate Cemetery in London.

Glasgow Airport Prayer Room

This week we will be looking at "Religion in Your surroundings". ⁠ Day 4. John Knox's grave in the middle of a car park off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh

This week we will be looking at "Religion in Your surroundings". ⁠ Day 4. Door to a local mosque (notice carpet in front) the front is a small falafel stand run by a Lebanese man, London