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Book SynopsisWith growing diversity of religion and belief in every sector comes the potential for new dialogues across previously impermeable policy and disciplinary silos. This volume critically challenges policy makers to re-imagine religion and belief as an integral part of public life that contains resources, practices, forms of knowledge and experience.
Trade Review"A timely and innovative analysis highlighting the need to re-imagine religion and belief as integral parts in the construction of a new modernity." Anders Bäckström, Uppsala University
“Readers ought to take Re-Imagining Religion and Belief as an invitation for interdisciplinary conversation… this book offers an example of the type of work the editors hope to encourage, with multiple disciplines coming together considering how religion and belief bear on real world issues.” Reading Religion
Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Chris Baker, Beth R Crisp and Adam Dinham; Part 1: Re-imagining religion and belief spaces; The need to re-imagine religion and belief ~ Adam Dinham, Christopher Baker and Beth R. Crisp; Re-negotiating religion and belief in the public square: Definitions, debates, controversies ~ Christopher Baker and Adam Dinham; Geographical landscapes of religion ~ Paul Cloke and Andrew Williams; Spatial methodology’ in religion and belief research: the example of a study of Twelver Shii Muslim networks in Britain ~ Oliver Scharbrodt; Part 2: Re-imagining Public Policy and Practice; Law and Religion: a survey of cases in the UK and what they reveal ~ Lucy Vickers; Reading religion through the lessons of legal decisions and reactions to them ~ Lori G. Beaman; Religion and belief in postcolonial policy in Australia ~ Mark G. Brett; Re-imagining the place of religion in the workplace: the example of Australian social work ~ Beth R. Crisp; Religious literacy in welfare and civil society: a Nordic perspective ~ Annette Leis-Peters; Part 3: Re-imagining the future; Policy futures for religion and belief ~ Chris Baker, Beth R Crisp and Adam Dinham.
