The Department of Religious Studies celebrates 50 years of the study of religion at the University with a 50th Anniversary Lecture on Tuesday 8 September 2015 in the Conference Suite, Darwin College, with a drinks reception at 18.30 and the lecture at 19.30.

The lecture entitled ‘Religion and the City: A Comparative Perspective on Asia and the Rest’ will be given by Professor Peter van der Veer of the Max Planck Institute for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany and is hosted by the Humanities 50th anniversary fund, University of Kent, in conjunction with the keynote address of the British Association for the Study of Religions.

The reception will also launch the booklet From the Local to the Global: 50 Years of the Study of Religion in the Humanities at the University of Kent, 1965-2015.

Further details of the event are available at: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/events