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One discipline, many methods? Part 1
No full textA contribution to the debate about disciplines in religious education/religion and worldviews
Material meaning: investigating how meaning is organised and interpreted in industrial design practice
No full textThis paper reviews a pilot interview method, intended to investigate what meaning making is in industrial design practice. It is the second part of a PhD study on how meaning is organised in industrial design practice, and after design, when the product has transitioned into the possession of a user. Key literature on design, meaning, and practice is considered, followed by a review of three semi-structured interviews with industrial designers, focused on discussing firstly a product they have designed, and secondly an object they own. The research takes a material centric approach, tracing the journey of the artefacts, rather than the designer. The artefacts become the focus for discussion of designers’ meaning making practices, and sketching is incorporated as an embodied method to get at a more layered, complex picture. Following the objects helps to ground reflection in the objects’ materiality, and dwell in the connections and relationships
As seen
No full textAs Seen, a collaborative film by London-based artists Jenny Dunseath and Kate Squires was developed from conversations about screen-based encounters between subject and object within the mediated ‘real'. The film sets out to disrupt these encounters, highlighting and disturbing material qualities of objects. Ungraspable physical objects form a background in which an inoperable screen sits both within and on the surface
Is Buddhism a religion?
No full textDiscussion of the terms "Buddhism" and "religion" and whether Buddhism is a religion or a philosophy
Time for a change? A case study of the work of the Commission on Religious Education in England
No full text"Halt! Halt!" Oliver Cromwell, Hugh O’Neill and the Siege of Clonmel, April–May 1650
No full textThis essay will reconsider the elements that relate to the Cromwellian siege of Clonmel in April - May 1650. This siege, located within the latter stages of the Cromwellian campaign in Ireland of 1650, was notable in many ways, not the least being that it turned into a grave tactical defeat for Cromwell, who left Ireland shortly afterwards. Remarkably enough, it also raises some real doubts about his abilities in this form of contemporary warfare and the tactical failure at Clonmel seems to have given him a severe dent to his own self-esteem, for it is subsequently little mentioned by him in either his speeches or correspondence
William Tyndale, Henry VIII and 'The obedience of a Christian man'
Get PDFWilliam Tyndale’s 'The obedience of a Christian man' has been credited with influencing the Henrician regime’s thinking and propaganda on the subject of obedience to royal authority. According to an anecdote first recorded by the Archdeacon of Nottingham, John Louthe, Henry was so delighted by Tyndale’s tract that he called it "a book for me and all kings to read", and historians have argued that Henry sought to recruit Tyndale as a royal propagandist or diplomat in 1531. This article argues that Louthe’s anecdote was probably a later invention, that Henry disapproved of the 'Obedience' and its author, and that the evidence that Henry sought to recruit Tyndale rather than simply to force him to abjure his heresies is slim. The 'Obedience' contained very little that would have pleased Henry, presenting him as a mere ‘shadow’ of a King, manipulated by evil prelates. While Tyndale rejected rebellion against even tyrannical rulers, this should not be confused with advocacy of obedience of the kind that Henry might approve of, and his 'Obedience' sanctioned disobedience of various kinds. From the outset, remarkably radical ideas were contained within an apparently 'conservative' tradition of English evangelical political thought
