To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University of Kent, the Department of Religious Studies has launched a new booklet entitled From the Local to the Global: 50 Years of the Study of Religion in the Humanities at the University of Kent, 1965-2015.

The booklet was launched on Tuesday 8 September at a reception in Darwin College and was followed by a 50th anniversary lecture entitled ‘Religion and the City: A Comparative Perspective on Asia and the Rest’ given by Professor Peter van der Veer of the Max Planck Institute for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany.

The study of religion is built on an early vision of the University of Kent to establish effective interdisciplinary research that explores and challenges the given assumptions in order to establish knowledge that is of value to the world and public engagement. This booklet shows how the study of religion in the Humanities has changed over the last 50 years.

You can view the publication at: http://issuu.com/unikentsecl/docs/bt_119277_basr_final_web/1?e=0