Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice

 

Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice is an interdisciplinary event exploring how creative practices shape, challenge, and reimagine encounters and forms of coexistence between different faiths. Open to both academic audiences and wider communities, the event invites contributors to reflect on the potential of creative media to interrogate dominant models of religious difference and to offer new perspectives on the lived realities of interreligious interaction, particularly in sacred and contested spaces.

 

Organised by the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, Religions for Peace UK, and the University of Edinburgh (Social Anthropology & the Alwaleed Centre), the event aims to strengthen connections across architecture, social anthropology, art, film, performance, cultural landscape studies, and related fields. It builds on an initiative developed at Newcastle University in close collaboration with Religions for Peace UK, as part of the broader project Religious Coexistence: Embodied Interactions in Sacred Sites and Faith Practices. The first symposium in this series was held at Newcastle University in January 2025.

 

 

This event is generously funded by Religions for Peace UK and the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh.

 

For more information, visit: Interreligious Encounters and Creative Practice | School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape | Newcastle University