![]() ![]() Churches no less empty or strange, with their endless “do not cross” yellow tape everywhere. This city’s once great and endless panoply of amusement outlets and retail opportunities are closed, West End theatres and cinemas, clubs and pubs, bars and restaurants silent. Through this research we investigated the tensions involved in promoting interfaith cooperation in London and the positive outcomes of such dialogue for the city’s social and community cohesion.Ī recording of our launch event can be accessed here.London’s streets are empty of life, its byways strangely deserted. To respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic we adapted this project with a greater focus on a) online spaces of religious community and worship and b) challenged notions of authority and legitimacy between the state and religious communities. Our focus was on difficult engagement with sections of faith communities who tend to be wary of, or hostile to, interfaith dialogue. This project worked with grassroots faith communities and city-wide interfaith networks to investigate how and why interfaith initiatives succeed and fail. ![]() Strengthening Religious Cooperation in Global London ![]() Embracing Religious Plurality - LSE Religion and Global Society Unit ![]() It is our aim that this nexus between research and practice will make a significant contribution to the social scientific understanding of religion and its applications across multiple fields and disciplines. These insights will be adapted and developed into a range of online resources, education programmes, conferences and workshops for researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Working in partnership with three LSE academic departments and centres ( LSE Anthropology, LSE Women Peace and Security, LSE Middle East Centre) the project will focus on three research strands: Creating Plural Spaces, Women of Faith and Peacebuilding and Climate Change and Interfaith Relations. ![]()
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