Student prizes. Congratulations to this year’s prize-winners in Religions & Theology! Asha Joseph (first year) receives the Bishop Lee Junior Greek Testament Prize for the best examination result in New Testament Greek. Edward Bullock (second year) receives the Philip Alexander Prize for the highest module grade in undergraduate Jewish Studies. The Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for Religious Studies for the best dissertation is awarded to Dorothy Brock for her project ‘Mothering Martyrs: did politico-religious discourses on 'Mothers of Martyrs' during the Second Palestinian Intifada influence expressions of grief among women in the West Bank?’. The Brandon Memorial Prize for the best work in comparative religion is awarded to Arrchana Lingarajah for the dissertation ‘Can religiousness in ethnic minority youth be attributed to an attachment to their cultural heritage? An analysis using UK university students' practice and perceptions of their religious identity since becoming independent.’ The Dastur Kutar Prize for best undergraduate dissertation in Non-Western Religious Studies is awarded to Katia Moussallati for her work on ‘The Indigenization of Christianity in the Pasifika: From Coconut Theology to the Climate Crisis - How did the form of Christianity brought by the colonialists differ from the version of Christianity that was adopted by the colonised peoples of the Pasifika?’. Finally, the Religion and Social Responsibility Dissertation Prize for the best undergraduate dissertation that explores a social or ethical challenge at the intersection of religion and social responsibility is awarded jointly to Natalie Newell for ‘Jokes, Identity and the Line We Draw: A critical investigation into how the identity of a stand-up comedian informs the acceptability of their comic material’ and Annabel Egberts for ‘Levinas's Philosophy and Its Relevance in Understanding Contemporary Forms of Evil and Moral Obligation’.
