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I also liked that. For the whole of her working life my mother Betty Scharf taught at the LSE and wrote The Sociological Study of Religion. She also started a gender studies course. When the School stopped teaching the sociology of religion (the most important subject on the planet?) I used my inheritance to award the Betty Scharf prize to the best work in Gender Studies on a religious theme in the hope to tempt more students into this important area of work.

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👏 and couldn’t agree more.

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