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  • 27 Oct
    2009
    Poetry, tears and religion

    Several of the greatest poets in the English tradition from the Renaissance onward have sought to replace God with the human imagination, says Michael Robbins. They have succeeded and failed in interesting ways.

  • 17 Aug
    2009
    Prayer for the non-pious

    Many people have lost touch with ‘institutional religion’, but not with spirituality. Henry Morgan explains how people’s passions and everyday experience can reconnect them with the God they already knew, and with prayer as a natural, integrating, liberating activity.

  • 13 Apr
    2009
    Religion and the Market: are they in conflict?
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    The global revival of religion has been predominantly fuelled by the creation of a religious free market defined by entrepreneurship, choice and personal revelation.

  • 13 Apr
    2009
    Religion and the Market: are they in conflict?
    01/06/2009 - 18:30
    01/06/2009 - 20:00

    The global revival of religion has been predominantly fuelled by the creation of a religious free market defined by entrepreneurship, choice and personal revelation.

  • 15 Mar
    2009
    Changing belief patterns in the USA

    The dominance of religion in American public life has taken a different form to that of Europe under Christendom. But the US picture is changing too.

  • 26 Feb
    2009
    How faith can face the challenge of freedom

    Rather than resorting to fearful rhetoric about 'marginalisation' or 'persecution', Christians and people of faith in Britain have a real opportunity to contribute to the public good and to defend the civic freedoms upon which we all rely

  • 20 Feb
    2009
    Welsh equality seminar rounds off series on 'religion or belief' issues

    The last of four major conferences looking into issues regarding equality, human rights and ‘religion or belief’ took place in Cardiff earlier this week

  • 18 Feb
    2009
    Religion, belief and non-discrimination law

    Over the past eleven years, the British government has passed a number of laws that specifically tackle, or include directly in their provisions, protection of the freedom of ‘religion or belief’ – based on the right to hold or not to hold religious or other philosophical beliefs. This paper looks specifically at how ‘religion or belief’ is defined, particularly in relation to the Equality Act 2006 / 2007, and locates this within the wider policy-led and academic attempts to define ‘religion’. Looking at some of the implications of the definitions applied, it goes on to summarise key elements of current law on non-discrimination, drawing on public sources and examples from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Nothing in this background paper constitutes legal advice or should be read as constituting such advice. If you have legal questions or requirements, please consult a qualified lawyer.

    Simon Barrow
  • 14 Feb
    2009
    Overwhelming support for head teacher in school religion row

    Parents and local residents have overwhelmingly backed the head teacher of a Devon school where a young child was reprimanded for upsetting a classmate by telling her she would "go to hell" for not believing in God.

  • 14 Feb
    2009
    Giving Crediton where it's due

    Parents and staff - including a local Religious Education teacher - are rallying around a school they say has been wrongly accused of telling children 'not to talk about God'.

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