LSE Religion and the Public Sphere lecture series
Date: Tuesday 11 October 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: CLM2.02, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Tariq Modood
Chair: Professor Craig Calhoun
One of the challenges today in relation to the place of religion in British public life is how to ‘recognise’ secular belief and minority faiths at a time when they are showing a certain vitality, with that of a declining Christian heritage. In this talk Tariq Modood will consider this topic in relation to the recent report of the Commission on Religion in British Public Life (2015). His interest is less on the details of the policy recommendations of the Commission, more on the general approach or understanding of the context exhibited in relation to the place of religion in a changing Britain, with specific reference to an egalitarian inclusivity in relation to secular belief and minority faiths.
Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol and the co-founder of the international journal, Ethnicities. He was awarded a MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001 and was elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) in 2004. He served on the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the National Equality Panel, and the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life. His latest books include Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (2nd ed; 2013); and as co-editor Multiculturalism Rethought (2015) and Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: Debating the Dividing Lines (2016).
Craig Calhoun () is President of the Berggruen Institute, Global Distinguished Professor at NYU and Centennial Professor at the LSE.
Religion and the Public Sphere () is a research project hosted by The Institute of Public Affairs and supported by the LSE Annual Fund.
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