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Secularism and Faith
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Protests over blasphemous opera productions and novels insulting Islam have shown that the tension between faith and secularism still bubbles beneath the surface of contemporary society. Addressing and challenging the values of belief systems are always likely to raise tensions between differing ideological positions, but are necessary for a fully functioning society. Does the current political climate expose increasingly fundamental and intransigent gaps between the two spheres? Has this polarisation reached a point where the divide between faith and secularism has become nonnegotiable? If the belief is that effective dialogue is still achievable, what issues are the two sides willing to negotiate on and what space is left for faith in “modern” society?
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Projects
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Publications
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Glass Houses
Author: Rughani, Pratap dir.
Part of the Keeping in touch project, this DVD forms a series of interviews with journalists from outside the UK, giving us the unique opportunity to look at Britain from the outside, through 17 pairs of eyes.
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Faith and Secularism
Author: Bechler, Rosemary ed.
The widest of all mental gaps is not between warring nations or religious groups – it is between those who believe and those who don't believe in a transcendental God. Can secular and religious people build trust effectively across this gap?
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Britain & Ireland: Lives Entwined II
Author: British Council Ireland
Essays on contemporary British-Irish relations, with views from the USA with a preface written by Mary McAleese, President of Ireland.
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No Ordinary Life: Being Young in the Worlds of Islam
Author: Arbabzadah, Nushin, ed
When war broke out in the Middle East in March 2003, Counterpoint established an online community of young writers from around the world who kept diaries for a year. This book is an anthology of their writing.
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Representing Islam
Author: Counterpoint
Representing Islam explores two central themes: how the West sees Islam; and how Muslims see each other, particularly between the old Muslim heartlands of the Middle East, South and East Asia and the diasporic Muslims of the West.
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British Muslims: media guide, published with the Association of Muslim Social Scientists was launched for the nineth time in Berlin at a joint event hosted by the British Council and the British Embassy Berlin entitled Muslims in Europe - European Muslims. Participants included Muslim organisations, journalists, policy makers and politicians from both Germany and the UK.
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