Cristo Redentor. Photo: flickr.com/bossa67
Of Gods & Monsters
1 June 2009 - 22 June 2009
A short series of talks about the endurance of God, and ideas of good and evil. Do we need religion to sustain our belief in truth and universal values? And, if so, do we need to believe in evil too?
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Saviours & Survivors
1 June 2009
Mahmood Mamdani looks at the tendency to think about conflicts in terms of good guys and bad guys, with reference to the ongoing violence in Darfur.
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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
3 June 2009
Are governments and intellectuals quick to champion a liberal ideal of Islam which may be just as unrepresentative as Islamic fundamentalism?
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The Return of Christ
18 June 2009
Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank consider what wisdom the Christian message might hold for political progressives.
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MegaGod: The Evangelical Strain
22 June 2009
How is evangelical Christianity changing the world, and is there anything we can learn from it?