Recently promoted to Senior Lecturer, Katja Stuerzenhofecker has been awarded accreditation as Recognised Associate Research Supervisor by the UK Council for Graduate Education. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Peter Scott and Finlay Malcolm on a successful application to the UKRI’s Impact Accelerator Account. This funding supports a Diocese of Salford secondment to embed some of the findings from their AHRC project, Religion, Theology and Climate Change (2022-25).

Second-year R&T student Niamh Hardman has recently been accepted onto USPG and the Anglican Communion Youth Network's Emerging Leaders Academy due to her excellent work in children's ministry in Hulme and her position as a trustee for Greater Together Manchester.

Prof. Peter Scott was interviewed for the film “Planetary Humanity: Astrobiology’s Invitation to the Humanities”. The dialogue captured by the film was part of a research project organised by the Centre of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. Watch it here: vimeo.com/1088537021

🎉 New Publication 🎉 HRF Mary E. Mills has published "Transmutational spaces in Isaiah: between picture postcard and void" in Literature and Theology. academic.oup.com/lit...

Erica Baffelli was one of the invited speakers at “Faith on Failure: The 2025 Heythrop Institute Workshop” last week. www.heythropinstitut...

CJS HRF Professor Tony Kushner will present his latest book, 'The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History' at Manchester Jewish Museum on 31st July at 6pm. £5 tickets for Under 30s. Book now: www.manchesterjewish...

🎉 New Publication 🎉 Alex Samely has published "Philosophising While Reading Texts Across Cultures" in Doing Metaphysics in a Diverse World: How We Make Sense of Things Across Cultures, edited by Stephen Green and published by Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/u...

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Parkhouse, who has been appointed Lecturer in Biblical and Early Christian Studies (fixed term). She will complete her British Academy Fellowship and take up her post from 1 Sept 2025.

The department is saddened by the news that Professor John Heywood Thomas, lecturer in Philosophy of Religion from 1957-65, has passed away at the age of 98. Robert Pope has published an obituary in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/...

I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too! 💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens) Let’s see where it ends up… #Giveaway

Some thoughts on women retelling the gospel story. theconversation.com/cynthia-eriv...

🎉 New Publication 🎉 George J. Brooke has co-edited a volume "Missing Pieces: Essays in Honour of Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar". The essays honour the work of Eibert Tigchelaar in the ways they build on his incisive insights and exemplary contributions. brill.com/display/ti...

🎉 Congratulations to this year’s prize-winners in Religions & Theology! 🎉 Asha Joseph (first year) receives the Bishop Lee Junior Greek Testament Prize for the best examination result in New Testament Greek.

Congratulations to our Class of 2025, who graduated this week! Whether you just graduated (like Sylvia here) or you’ve been in the @officialuom.bsky.social alumni crew a little longer, we’d love to see your graduation photos this week. Tag us, reply, or DM!

Fantastic read by @siobhanjolley.bsky.social for @theconversation.com 💭 ⭐ @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

📣 Booking is now open for our 2025 meeting, hosted by @uomreligion.bsky.social - online and in person options available now. estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-...

Today, we're hosting our Postgraduate Study Day for Religions and Theology, with our partners from Nazarene Theological College, Cliff College and Luther King Centre. This afternoon, we welcome alumnus Dr Munyurangabo Benda from Queens Foundation for a keynote on Black political theology.

We're hosting the 2025 meeting of the Bible, Critical Theory and Reception Seminar here at @uomreligion.bsky.social today, with some great papers ahead. If you're interested in joining us next year, drop @tdbiii.bsky.social, @drrebekah.bsky.social or me a line!

Join us this week for our final departmental seminar of the academic year. We’ll be joined by Professor Ben Quash (of @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @thevcs.bsky.social) to talk about the intersection of art and theology.

For the final Ehrhardt Seminar of the academic year, the Centre for Biblical Studies was delighted to celebrate Emeritus Professor George Brooke today. Professor Brooke was awarded the 2024 Burkitt Medal by the @britishacademy.bsky.social.

My gal is Picture of the Month at the @NationalGallery, and we made a little film about it. (Tell your Mary Magdalene pals.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeRQ...

📣 Seminar Spotlight: Paul For 2025, the Paul seminar (chaired by Andy Boakye and @ryancollman.bsky.social) will host three sessions - two on gender and sexuality and a third open call.

We’re at the London offer holders’ day at Woburn House today - come and say hi!

Today's Ehrhardt Seminar is underway, with @jc01229.bsky.social speaking on 'Meeting Old Quests Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus among British Dissenters, Radicals, and the Working Class (c. 1790-c.1850)'

Join us on Thursday - in person or online - for Dr Caroline Starkey’s paper ‘Spirit Communication and the Disenchanting World’, a recent ethnographic study of the patrons, staff, and volunteers of a Spiritualist church and nearby psychic shop in Morley, a working-class town in the North of England.

Today's online Ehrhardt Seminar features Dr Susanna Millar from @edinburghuni.bsky.social, speaking on "Animals, Power, and Intersectionality in the Books of Samuel".

We're hosting BNTS 2025! The CfP is now open.

🗣️ In this week’s research slot we welcome @thelonial_monk to give the 2025 Samuel Ferguson Lecture. 📍Ellen Wilkinson C1.18 📆 6th March 🕓 4pm

🎉New Publication 🎉Charlotte Bray has published Sin and the Vulnerability of Embodied Life: Towards a Catholic Theology of Social Sin in T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology, with Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sin-and-t...

In March, CJS HRF Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz will be teaching a series of online lectures on 'Translating the Bible' for the Jewish Community Scholar Program, Orange County, California.

🎉 Congratulations to CJS HRF Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, who has been invited to serve on the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute's Research Awards Academic Advisory Committee for 2025.

🗣️We’re delighted to welcome Dr Frederick Simmons this week, to present his paper Environmental Despair, Salvation History, and the Theological Virtues. 📍Uni Place 5.205 or online 📆 Thursday, 20th February 🕓 4pm

At the Limmud Festival 20–25 December 2024, CJS HRF Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz presented a session on the new Limmud Archive. She was also in conversation with Gila Fine on her new book 'The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic' (Maggid, 2024), on feminist rereadings of talmudic stories.

Today the Ehrhardt Seminar resumed in person and online. We welcomed Dr. Dominika Kurek-Chomycz, Associate Professor in Biblical Studies at Liverpool Hope to present ‘A Perfect (Mis)fit for a Leader? Moses’s Speech Impediment in Early Christian Interpretation’.

Last month @[email protected] gave the Nissan Seminar at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Her seminar paper was entitled, "Religion at the margins: Fear and belonging in minority religious communities in Japan."

We’re delighted to welcome our first group of offer holders this afternoon to meet staff and students and enjoy a teaching showcase from Andy, Siobhán and Kamran.

🤖 Scott Midson will be speaking on "Robot, Religion, Ethics" at the International Workshop on Robotics, Religion and Ethics. Friday 28th Feb 2025. 🎟️ Book your tickets at

🎉 Congratulations to MA Student Yehudis Fletcher, who was the SALC nominee for the Faculty’s Distinguished Achievement Award: Postgraduate Student of the Year due to her charitable work and research around secular education in the Charedi communities.

🎉 Congratulations to @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social who has joined the editorial board for JSNT.

@siobhanjolley.bsky.social has just begun a new year of mentoring with @artsemergency.bsky.social, an award-winning charity and support network that aims to help young people flourish in higher education and the creative industries. Siobhán is happy to chat with anyone interested in mentoring!

A great start to our Thursday research seminars yesterday, with a report from Professor Peter Scott (UoM), Dr Gemma Edwards (UoM), Dr Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Oxford) and Dr Finlay Malcolm (UoM) on their research project, ‘Changing Climate, Changing Religion’.

Our first departmental research seminar of the semester is underway! 'Changing Climate, Changing Religion' offers some preliminary findings from the team working on the AHRC-funded research project led by Professor Peter Scott.

📣The departmental research seminar returns next week. 🌱Join us in person or online for ‘Changing Climate, Changing Religion’, on Thursday at 4pm.

👋 We’re now on Bluesky and Instagram as UoMReligion. 📰 Follow us for updates about the department and details of forthcoming events (often hybrid) and new publications.