Sacred Calendars; Lailat ul bara'ah
Dr Musharef Hussain, the Chief Imam in the Karimia Institute in Nottingham, describes what is celebrated each year on 'the Night of Repentance' (Laila...
Sacred Calendars
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In this series of videos, academic staff from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham discuss Sacred Calendars.
Sacred Calendars; The Mi'raj
Dr Musharraf Hussain, the Chief Imam in the Karimia Institute in Nottingham, describes what is celebrated each year on the anniversary of the Ascensio...
Sacred Calendars: 23 April - St George's Day
St George is not only patron of England, but of several other countries and regions. He was an early Greek military saint, who was martyred at Lydda (...
Sacred Calendars; 17 March - St Patrick's Day
St Patrick is now almost synonymous with Ireland -- and his feastday on March 17 has become a great festival of 'being Irish' around the world. Howeve...
Sacred Calendars: The Orthodox Year
Christianity, like almost every other religion, celebrates its beliefs over the course of the year -- moreover, each branch of Christianity constructs...
Sacred Calendars: Halloween
How did the festival of Halloween -- literally the 'Eve of All Hallows Day' -- which is celebrated on 31 October enter the Christian calendar? And how...
Sacred Calendars: The Transfiguration of Christ
August 6 is a festival for Christians in both the east and the west recalling the event narrated in the gospels when Jesus's 'face shone like the sun,...
Sacred Calendar: Lady Day with Frances Knight
25 March is an important Christian feast known as 'the annunciation' [of the angel to Mary that she was to give birth to Jesus]. This became known in ...
Sacred Calendars: Ash Wednesday with Alison Milbank
Ash Wednesday begins, for Christians, the preparation for their central feast: Easter. Now linked to giving up smoking, its name comes from the practi...
Sacred Calendars: Epiphany with Mary Cunningham
This feast falls on 'the twelfth day of Christmas' (January 6) and celebrates the visit of the 'wise men' to Bethlehem for Western Christians; in the ...