Faith in the Public Realm: Controversies, Policies and Practices

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Dinham, Adam, Furbey, Robert, Vivien Lowndes
Policy Press, Jan 28, 2009 - Political Science - 244 pages
Faith in the public realm takes an explicitly multi-faith perspective, exploring the controversies, policies and practices of 'public faith'. It questions perceptions of a fixed divide between religious and secular participants in public life and challenges prevailing concepts of a monolithic 'neutral' public realm.
 

Contents

two Controversies of public faith
21
Muslim identity British secularism
41
Tables
43
interfaith multifaith
63
883
83
six Blurred encounters? Religious literacy spiritual
105
British Muslim youth
143
institutionalising parallel lives?
163
a contested discourse
183
twelve Conclusions
223
Index
237
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Adam Dinham is Professor of Faith and Public Policy, Director of the Faiths and Civil Society Unit and Head of the Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also Professor of Religion and Belief Literacy at VID Specialised University in Oslo.

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