03/07/2026 09:00
- 11:10
HALL: Pola - A105
Contact:
Triffitt S.
Chair:
Triffitt S.
In this panel, through a diverse range of geographical and distinct religious ethnographies, the CAT Network will explore how our interlocutors navigate religious inequalities and equalities. The CAT (Cambridge Anthropology-Theology) Network was founded in 2022 as an online space to foster global collaboration between scholars of Anthropology and Theology, who share a research interest in contemporary religion, ritual, belief, and doctrine. Since our start, we have grown to a global community including over 350 academics in over 20 countries. At the heart of CAT is the belief that Anthropology and Theology work well together and are useful conversation and methodological partners in addressing central religious debates. By engaging with thorough fieldwork on the ground we have endeavoured to do theology 'with' our interlocutors experiencing inequality, and not just write 'about' them. The papers in this panel cover a diversity of topics from religious inequalities in UK state schools, to the use of European rap to process, reconcile and constructively challenge inequality, to the use of silence in Malaysia to create equality amongst Christians, to the productivity of hope amongst the homeless in Bradford, Yorkshire. Together we will not only grapple with religious (in)equalities but also how to balance two valuable disciplines, so that neither becomes merely the handmaiden to the other.
