School of History, Religions and Philosophies

RELI-GENE examines how genetic testing and reproductive technologies shape family formations, kinships and belongings within close-knit religious minorities.

A multi-year and interdisciplinary project where diverse scholars and practitioners, from AI engineers to Sci-fiction novelists, from philosophers to Sinologists aim to discuss Chinese perspectives on AI in a global dialogue and explore its implications for humanity and its future.

This project unveils the reinvention of religion and Buddhism that frame the “Tzu Chi model” of humanitarian action, and reflects on its potential in informing charity work worldwide.

A multi-year and interdisciplinary project that explores patterns of religious diversity in Sichuan from the 1800 to today, and relocates Sichuan from the periphery to the centre of the study of Chinese religions.

This project produced state-of-the art editions of the core ritual texts of the Zoroastrian religion and an interactive film of a performance of the ritual.

Dr Yousef Moradi created a catalogue of bullae he excavated at Taxt-e Sulaymān in Iran.

This project develops a technology for annotating textual structure within IIIF.

This project will analyse and publish newly discovered bullae and the seal impression they bear from one of the most important fire temples of Sasanian Iran.

The project challenges the exclusion in the dominant understanding of philosophical traditions and of philosophical knowledge as essentially textual, exploring the non-textuality of philosophical knowledge in African places with a specific focus on oral and symbolic forms of knowledge.