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ABOUT THE BOOK

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Reimagining Academic Understanding of Religion in the Public Sphere

James Walters

Religion in Plural Publics

Chapter 1

Dialogue: The Future of Faith

Charles Taylor and Craig Calhoun

Chapter 2

The Decline of Religious Freedom and the Return of Religious Influence

John Milbank

Chapter 3

Equality for Secular Belief and Minority Faiths? Reflections on the Commission on Religion in British Public Life

Tariq Modood

Religion and Public Good

Chapter 4

Dialogue: Religion and the Environment

Rowan Williams and Bruno Latour

Religion and Public Security

Chapter 5

Religion, Security, Strategy: an unholy Trinity?

Gwen Griffith-Dickson

Chapter 6

The Genesis of Strategy: How to Stop Killing in the Name of God

Jerry White

Afterword Afterword

Craig Calhoun

Index