Who Cares If Britain Isn't A Christian Country by The British Academy published on 2016-02-03T16:01:16Z BRITISH ACADEMY DEBATES ON FAITH Who cares if Britain isn't a Christian country? Thursday 28 January 2016, 6.30 - 8pm The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG Chaired by Sameer Rahim, Arts and Books Editor, Prospect Just how 'religious' is Britain? Is the UK a secular state? Multi-faith? Christian? What do such definitions mean both practically for the infrastructure of civil society and culturally in terms of how we view ourselves and others? Does having a formal label actually make a difference to what happens on the ground, to the experiences and activities of individuals and local communities? Speakers: Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt DD FBA Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford Professor Iain McLean FBA Professor of Politics, University of Oxford Professor Mona Siddiqui OBE Professor of Islamic and Inter-religious Studies, University of Edinburgh Polly Toynbee Vice-President and Patron, British Humanist Association Columnist, Guardian https://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2016/Who_cares_if_Britain_isnt_a_Christian_country.cfm Genre British Academy