ABSTRACT

Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations explores the changing contribution of religion to public life today. Bringing together a diverse group of preeminent scholars on religion, each chapter explores an aspect of religion in the public realm, from law, liberalism, the environment and security to the public participation of religious minorities and immigration. This book engages with religion in new ways, going beyond religious literacy or debates around radicalisation, to look at how religion can contribute to public discourse. Religion, this book will show, can help inform the most important debates of our time.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

Reimagining academic understanding of religion in the public sphere

part I|38 pages

Religion in plural publics

chapter 1|13 pages

The future of faith

chapter 3|12 pages

Equality for secular belief and minority faiths?

Reflections on the Commission on Religion in British Public Life 1

part II|57 pages

Religion and public good

chapter |20 pages

Afterword

Religion in the English public sphere