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  • 31 Oct 2006
    Religion and Society

    Much of Ekklesia’s media work is in the area of the relationship between religion and society. In 2006, Ekklesia’s director Jonathan Bartley published the book; “Faith and Politics After Christ

  • 17 Mar 2013
    Media, faith and state post-Leveson

    "Media, Faith and State post-Leveson" is the theme of a panel discussion on Tuesday 19 March 2003 in the Martin Hall, Edinburgh University School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX.

  • 8 Mar 2013
    Religious and civic voices stress humanitarian concern over nuclear weapons

    Civil society representatives and governments have met from 2 to 5 March in Oslo, Norway, to address the humanitarian effects of nuclear weapons.

  • 4 Feb 2013
    Law and religion: happy marriage or estranged acquaintances?

    Christianity and the Law have been in a more or less constant state of relational flux over the course of history, observes barrister Andrew Worthley, considering two of the recent European Court of Human Rights cases brought on grounds of religious discrimination. The idea that iron-clad secular law and immutable religion are on a collision course misunderstands both law and religion, as well as the nuances of history and of texts, he suggests.

  • 23 Jan 2013
    Concern at destruction of religious sites in northern Syria

    Armed opposition groups appear to have deliberately destroyed religious sites in mixed areas of Northern Syria, at the end of 2012, Human Rights Watch says.

  • 22 Dec 2012
    American attitudes to LGBT people shifting, latest polls show

    In the wake of historic victories for LGBT supporters in last month's US elections, USA Today/Gallup polls find growing acceptance among Americans.

  • 18 Dec 2012
    Religion, feminism and gender-making theory

    What are some of the implications of the discussion of critical religion for feminist and gender theory making? The gendered binaries of spiritual/material or spirit/flesh still haunt us, says Dr Alison Jasper, in the tendency to regard women and the female as better fitted for certain roles that tend to be less well rewarded in terms of money and influence.

  • 18 Dec 2012
    The demography of belief worldwide

    As we report elsewhere on Ekklesia (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17645), a new, comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life finds that more than eight-in-ten people worldwide identify with a religious group -- while the number of those unaffiliated with religion is on the rise, and now constitutes the third-largest global belief group.

  • 18 Dec 2012
    Eight-in-ten of world population identify with a religious group

    A new, comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories finds that more than 8 in 10 worldwide identify with a religious group.

  • 18 Dec 2012
    Majority of Americans accept reality of climate change

    The December 2012 PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey in the United States has found religious disagreement on what lies behind the severe weather.