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WTF's 60th Anniversay Lecture Series - special Crucible edition now available
A special Crucible edition featuring articles by Rowan Williams, Ian Steedman, John Atherton, Francis Davis, Peter Gilbert and Bob Langley written to celebrate WTFs 60th Anniversary is now available through this website (£4.95 inc.p&p). Click here for details.
We aim to continue the visionary thinking of Archbishop William Temple about the ongoing search for a just and inclusive society.
We research into:
- Faith based engagement in civil society (religious and spiritual capital)
- Contribution of religion to wellbeing and happiness
- Postsecular Cities - space, theory, practice
- New Capitalism project (see below)
WTF is co-sponsor of a national briefing conference on May 6th 2009 designed to bring together practitioners, academics, and statutory agencies to discuss the latest initiatives and future possibilities with regard to the participation of faith groups in social policy, especially welfare. Other sponsors include University of Warwick and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. For details of programme click here
WTF is part of a consortium (including the Church of England and the University of Manchester) that has made a successful bid to the ESRC Seminars competition worth 14K. Entitled Faith, Secularism and Public Policy the seminar series will be run in Manchester from January to June 2009. (Click on hyperlink for more details).
WTF has received 140K three year grant from Leverhulme Trust for new research into religious and spiritual capital in the UK - research will start March 1st 2007. Access our Year One Literature Review for this research project.
WTF secures 23K Religion and Society Grant from AHRC (Art and Humanities Research Council) into faith contributions to the Wellbeing and Happiness debate in partnership with the University of Manchester - research starts October 1st 2007.
William Temple Foundation is a member of The Manchester Research Institute for Religion and Civil Society - click here to return to MRIRCS.
Read WTF's mission statement, or take a look at our research and networking activities and publications, read our .
Read Faiths and Finance - a place for faith-based economics, written by John Atherton and others - a joint Islamic/Christian initiative. This report was launched at the Christian-Muslim Forum event at Manchester Town Hall on November 15th 2006.
Research papers
- Download John Reader's latest paper on Blurred Encounters and Public Theology entitled The Dark Side of Public Theology: Counting the Cost of Encounter.
- Seeking hope in the indifferent city - faith-based contributions to spaces of production and meaning making in the postsecular city (Word,92KB) paper delivered by Chris Baker at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston April 2008
- Leverhulme Trust - Faith and Traditional Capitals: defining the public scope of religious capital - Year 1 literature review
- Glendale Alive - report for the Rural Mission and Ministry Initiative April 2008
- Religious Literacy, Faithful Capital and Language (Word, 63KB) paper delivered by Chris Baker at ESRC seminar series, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, January 2007
- Our 2006 report Faith in Action - The dynamic connection between spiritual and religious capital (PDF, 271KB) is now available.
- Chris Baker writes about Spiritual and Religious Capital (Word, 40KB) in New Start.
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