Overview

The Centre for the Study of Philosophy, Politics, and Religion (CSPPR) is a Cambridge-based research centre promoting scholarship and scholarly exchange at the intersection of the disciplines of philosophy, social and political theory, and religious thought. Besides being inter-disciplinary, CSPPR is international in its interest and outreach; it promotes academic conferences, research seminars, and inter-term courses in pursuit of its aims.

 

Areas of Interest

While our areas of interest are broad and inter-disciplinary by design, we focus on (but not to the exclusion of other topics) the following major themes: hyper-modernization, secularization, and re-sacralization; the role of the natural sciences and technology in society; globalism and its threat to natural justice and human rights; twenty-first century state totalitarianism and responses to it; the dialogue between religious traditions (including non-Western traditions) and liberal constitutionalism; the dialogue between the religious conscience and the universal human rights movement; moral realism and the constitutional order; the metaphysics of ethics and politics; and, scientific rationality, value theory and the law.


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