Reimagining Religion and Belief in the Public Sphere

Dinham, Adam. 2020. Reimagining Religion and Belief in the Public Sphere. Modern Believing, 61(2), pp. 141-151. ISSN 1353-1425 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

The renewed visibility of religion and belief at the start of the twenty-first century challenges the expectations of twentieth-century secularisation theory, which predicted the gradual withdrawal of religion from the public sphere. Policymakers are therefore often ill-equipped to accommodate religion within formerly secular paradigms governing the provision of education, security and cohesion, equality and human rights legislation and social welfare. This article asks how secular publics and faith communities alike might imagine policy provision which can come to terms with new ways of thinking about religion in a society that
is simultaneously religious and secular, Christian and multifaith.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2020.9

Additional Information:

This article is based on a keynote address first given at the Modern Church Conference 2019.

This is the accepted version of the following article: Reimagining Religion and Belief in the Public Sphere. Modern Believing, 61(2), pp. 141-151, which has been published in final form at https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/mb.2020.9. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the Liverpool University Press Self-Archiving Policy [http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/openaccess].

Keywords:

Religion and Public Policy, Security and Cohesion, Equality and Human Rights, Religious Education, Church of England

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Social, Therapeutic & Community Engagement (STaCS)

Dates:

DateEvent
21 February 2020Accepted
2 April 2020Published

Item ID:

28214

Date Deposited:

21 Feb 2020 11:45

Last Modified:

10 Jun 2021 05:02

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/28214

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