Bredon Village hall

Thursday 3rd October - 12 - 2pm

Soup & Sandwiches! Fundraiser for St Richard’s Hospice

BA (Modern Languages, French and German, Leeds);

MSt (Study of Religion, Oxford);  

PhD (Fruits of Religious and Spiritual Experience, Warwick).

Former Director of Communications, Alister Hardy Trust

mariannerankin@icloud.com

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    Publications:

    An Introduction to Religious and Spiritual Experience (2008, Continuum (Bloomsbury)

    An Introduction to Religious Experience (2005) Occasional Paper, RERC

    Dame Cicely Saunders, Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement by Shirley du Boulay (added new chapters) (SPCK, 2007)

    Editor of Occasional Papers published by the RERC

    Translation of papers for Pali Text Society

    Author of APA Travel Guide to Singapore;

    Translations from German to English of other guides

    Freelance writer and contributor to Singapore Visitor magazine of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board

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  • Speaker on Spiritual Experience to Interfaith and Spiritually-based Groups and to A level students

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  • Registered Translator and Interpreter with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Singapore

    Tuition, Translation and Interpreting available here

  • Tuition, Translation and Interpreting available here

    Université de Lyon, France Diplôme de la Langue et Civilisation françaises

  • Director of Communications for the Alister Hardy Trust

Dr Marianne Rankin

was Director of Communications for the Alister Hardy Trust which supports the work of the Religious Experience Research Centre at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in Lampeter. 

She is the author of An Introduction to Religious and Spiritual Experience (Bloomsbury 2008). She has also updated Shirley du Boulay‛s biography Cicely Saunders, The Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement; written a history of St Richard‛s Hospice in Worcester and illustrated Hal French‛s acclaimed Zen and the Art of Anything. 

Marianne is a linguist who lived in the Far East for almost twenty years, working as a teacher, translator, interpreter and freelance writer. On her return to UK she took a Master of Studies in the Study of Religion at the University of Oxford and a PhD at Warwick University.  

She gives talks in schools, colleges and to a variety of groups and enjoys leading Quiet Days of spiritual reflection. 

An Introduction to Religious & Spiritual Experience

An Introduction to Religious & Spiritual Experience

“A remarkably comprehensive global survey of types of religious and spiritual experience

... fascinating in its range and lucidity of expression.”

Keith Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus, University of Oxford.

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