Welcome to this Oxford Interfaith Calendar. As a quick reference, you’ll see that religious dates are BLUE, Oxford interfaith events (i.e including two or more faith groups) that can be attended by the public are ORANGE, and secular dates (including humanitarian, inclusivity & diversity, awareness days / weeks / months, UK bank holidays) are TAN. Click on an event to see if there is more information, e.g. a web link. Below the calendar are links to some Oxford-based interfaith groups and initiatives.
Please note:
- Some days show a note like ‘+3 more’; clicking on those notes will reveal all the items for that date.
- For security reasons, venues are not listed. Contact the organisation to find out more about the venue, registering for their event etc.
Please help me keep this calendar up to date. If you have set a date for an interfaith event in Oxford, please contact me as quickly as possible, so I can add it to the calendar. My hope is that this will help planners to make their interfaith events inclusive, avoiding religious dates that might prevent some people attending, and avoiding date clashes with other interfaith events. Also, please let me know of any mistakes on the calendar. Thanks.
Alexander Massey (personal website) – Contact Alexander
Abbreviations
B: Buddhist, Bah: Ba’hai, C: Christian, EOC: Eastern Orthodox Christian, H: Hindu, Is: Islam, Ja: Jain, Je: Jewish, Mor: Mormon, OC: Orthodox Christian, Rast: Rastafarian, RC: Roman Catholic, S: Sikh, W/P: Wicca & Pagan, Z: Zoroastrian
Oxford interfaith organisations & initiatives
- Ashmolean Museum One World Family Festival
- Centre for Muslim and Christian Studies (Oxford)
- Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) Oxford
- Dialogue Society – Turkish-Muslim interfaith outreach
- LGBTQ+ Society (Oxford University) – has two faith reps
- Oxford Council of Faiths
- Oxford Foundation – Muslim interfaith initiatives
- Oxford Interfaith Forum – academic study of interfaith/intercultural relations
- Oxford Interfaith Scriptural Reasoning (private Facebook group)
- Oxford Three Faiths Encounter – the three Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
- Scriptural Reasoning (Littlemore group)
Resources that I have consulted:
- Oxford University’s EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) calendar
- Interfaith Calendar – For dates that land on the same Gregorian date each year (therefore doesn’t include Jewish or Islamic dates). This also has some useful definitions of many religious events.
- Diversity & Inclusion Calendar (Right Track Learning)
- Inter Faith Network (UK)
- Islamic Calendar
- Jewish dates (Jerusalem Post)
- University College London Diversity Calendar