by Archive | Apr 24, 2010
“When will the moment arrive that the crime of the annihilation of the Armenians in 1915-1916 will be recognized as fact?”- Günter Grass, German Nobel Prize winning author in Istanbul, on 14 April 2010. ———- Introduction: A telling...
by Archive | Apr 23, 2010
Introduction: moving beyond ‘the English problem’ St George is a figure who embodies the curious ‘traditional’ relationship between religion and social order, nation and identity. More-or-less emptied of its (chequered) Christian history, his flag and...
by Archive | Mar 14, 2010
The population of the UK is equally split over the importance of institutional religion in public life, but three-quarters of the public and 70 per cent of Christians believe it is wrong for bishops to have reserved places in the House of Lords. The findings come in...
by Archive | Jan 15, 2010
Secularism has been variously defined as ‘promoting neutrality/fairness in the public square’, ‘separating governance from religion’, ‘managing a society of diverse beliefs’, ‘a regime of religious regulation’,...
