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CTC offers a unique combination of grassroots involvement and serious academic analysis.  Our aim is to bring theology and other academic disciplines into a deeper dialogue with the inner-city context, producing research which will support faithful and effective ministry.  The Centre's Fellowship is a team of academics and experienced practitioners who contribute to its work via research, advice and teaching.  A full list of CTC research papers and publications is here The Centre's current research has three streams:

Contending Modernities: Christian, Muslim & secular

Part of the University of Notre Dame (UND) Contending Modernities programme, this research partnership is explore the motivations for Christian, Muslim and secular engagement in community organising - and the way these different worldviews negotiate a common life.  It builds on our previous Just Communities research programme on the public dimensions of faith in a pluralist society.  Researchers: Vincent Rougeau, Angus Ritchie, Ruhana Ali, David Barclay, Caitlin Burbridge, Arabella Milbank

Latest research papers:

A Ritchie 2012, From Goodness to God: why religion makes sense of our moral commitments, Theos report

A Milbank 2012, Organised Christians: A contextual sounding on the meaning of community organising and the faithful motivation to organise amongst Christians in East London today, CTC briefing paper

R Ali, L Jamoul & Y Vali 2012, A New Covenant of Virtue: Islam and Community Organising, booklet for Citizens UK

Will the first be last?

This is a partnership with The Childrens' Society on (i) the impact of inequality and the related impact of poverty on children and young people; (ii) a Christian vision of the common good; and (iii) the practical contribution the Church can make to a more just social order. Click here for an introduction to the project.  Researchers: Angus Ritchie, Caitlin Burbridge

Latest research papers:

Michael Ipgrave - Poverty and Inequality: Some Questions
John Milbank - What a Christian view of Society says about Poverty

Religious and Secular Philosophy

The Centre is engaged in work for the University of Oxford's New Insights programme, which is seeking to bring together insights in secular and religious philosophy - and to engage in dissemination of research on issues relating to philosophy and religion.  Researcher: Angus Ritchie

 

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