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Welcome to TreasureQuest!
Look through the treasures and answer the questions. You’ll collect jewels and for each level reached, earn certificates.
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The 50 Religious Treasures of Cambridge has been produced by the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. The site aims to introduce students of Religious Studies to a range of artefacts and images from the museums, libraries and colleges of the University of Cambridge. They all have a connection with religion; some obvious, some more unusual.
This site gives students, teachers and parents the opportunity to explore world religions across more than 2000 years through objects currently based in Cambridge. It is aimed at students aged 11-14 but it is hoped that the site has something of interest for all those interested in the study of religion.
The resources have been selected by members of the departments/faculties, museums, libraries and colleges of the University of Cambridge. The resources that accompany the images have been written by academic staff, librarians, and museum curators.
The project was conceived by Laura Jeffrey at the Faculty of Divinity and the site has been generously funded by the University’s Widening Participation Project Fund, administered by the Cambridge Admissions Office.
We hope very much that this site gives you a taste for learning more about religion at GCSE, A-level and degree-level.
The study of religion at university often departs quite radically from the subject at school. First, you will find it called a range of different names, depending on where it is taught: Divinity, Theology, Religion, Religious Studies, or Philosophy of Religion.
Sometimes course content is similar, sometimes very different. One thing that most courses offer is the opportunity to study world religions from a range of perspectives: Literature, History, Languages (ancient and modern), Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Politics, Philosophy, and even Science. You can study multiple interests at one time, with the common theme of religion underlying them.
More information about the course at Cambridge can be found on the Faculty of Divinity’s webpages.
All text is the copyright of the University of Cambridge and must not be used without credit. All images are under copyright and must not be reproduced without the permission of the library, museum or college where the object is held. Please contact the individual institution for more information.
We are very grateful for the help of the following people in writing content for this site:
James Aitken
Faculty of Divinity and Fitzwilliam College
Catherine Ansorge
Cambridge University Library
Charles Aylmer
Cambridge University Library
Ankur Barua
Faculty of Divinity
Alex Browne
Clare College Library and St Edmund’s College Library
Janet Bunker
Parish of the Ascension
James Carleton Paget
Faculty of Divinity and Peterhouse College
Donal Cooper
Department of History of Art and Jesus College
Andrew Davison
Faculty of Divinity and Corpus Christi College
Nicholas de Lange
Faculty of Divinity
Seb Falk
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Garth Fowden
Faculty of Divinity
Simon Gathercole
Faculty of Divinity and Fitzwilliam College
Amanda Goode
Emmanuel College
Malcolm Guite
Girton College
Peter Harland
Faculty of Divinity
Colin Higgins
St Catharine’s College
Charlotte Hoare
Christ’s College Library
Ailsa Hunt
Faculty of Classics and Newnham College
Nathan MacDonald
Faculty of Divinity and St John’s College
Patricia McGuire
King’s College
Kathryn McKee
St John’s College
Jane McLarty
Faculty of Divinity and Wolfson College
Ben Outhwaite
Cambridge University Library
Suzanne Paul
Cambridge University Library
Anna Pensaert
Cambridge University Library and Pendlebury Library of Music
Catherine Pickstock
Faculty of Divinity and Emmanuel College
Edward Potten
Cambridge University Library
Elizabeth Powell
Faculty of Divinity
Richard Rex
Faculty of Divinity and Queens’ College
Philip Saunders
Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide
Lucy Sercombe
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Lucy Shipp
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Sally Stafford
Cambridge University Library
Tony Street
Divinity, Clare Hall
Nadiya Takolia
Faculty of Divinity
Andrew Thompson
Queens’ College
Dorothy J. Thompson
Girton College
Margaret Thompson
Westminster College, Cambridge Theological Federation
Vincenzo Vergiani
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Daniel Weiss
Faculty of Divinity and Darwin College
Emma Wild-Wood
Faculty of Divinity and Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide
Barry Windeatt
Emmanuel College