Faith and Brexit: Potential Implications of Brexit for the UK Faith Communities

4th December, 2018 @ 10:00 - 12:00

Woolf Institute, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0UB

Overview

This event will comprise a panel discussion with 4 speakers including Dr Ed Kessler MBE, Founder Director of the Woolf Institute. The session will be held in the K C Shasha Suite at the Woolf Institute, followed by Q&A and informal conversations with attendees. Refreshments will be provided.

As the date of leaving the EU is approaching, the Faith and Brexit panel discussion will try to establish and evaluate potential implications of Brexit for UK faith communities. Since the 2016 referendum, we have had data on voting preferences of various UK faith groups, but the effect which Brexit may or may not have on religious communities in Britain is yet unclear. From multidisciplinary perspective of law, politics and interfaith cooperation, this panel will attempt to fill that gap.

Speakers
Dr Daniel Nilsson DeHanas

Dr Daniel Nilsson DeHanas is Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Religion at King's College London. His wide-ranging research on religion and politics includes work on religious identity, political participation, and London as a global city of migration. His book London Youth, Religion, and Politics (Oxford University Press 2016) brings these interests together in a comparative study of young Muslims and Christians. He is co-founder of the website Public Spirit and serves as Editor of the journal Religion, State and Society (T&F Routledge). With his Co-Editor Marat Shterin he has recently published a journal special issue on “Religion and the Rise of Populism” (2018) including a global range of case studies of religious influences on populism in Britain, the US, Switzerland, Turkey, and elsewhere. His current research (with Peter Mandaville) is a British Council Bridging Voices project on the “Muslim Atlantic” that explores the connections between American and British Muslims and the prospective development of an Atlantic Islam.

Dr Jonathan Chaplin was Director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE) from 2006-2017. A specialist in political theology, he is currently an independent scholar and a member of the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge. His latest book is God and the EU: Faith in the European Project, coedited with Gary Wilton (Routledge, 2016). Published just before the 2016 referendum, it offers a constructive and critical understanding of Christian contributions to the origins, development and policy stances of the EU from a variety of theological, national and political perspectives. He is author of Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society (Notre Dame 2011), editor or co-editor of six other books, including God and Global Order: The Power of Religion in American Foreign Policy (Baylor 2010) and author of many articles in the field, including “Creation, Judgment and the State in Christianity and Islam” (The Muslim World 2016) and “The Challenge of Brexit: A Summons to Redefine the Purpose of the EU” (ABC Religion and Ethics, March 2018).


Professor Catherine Barnard MA (Cantab), LLM (EUI), PhD (Cantab) is Professor in European Union Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge, and senior tutor and fellow of Trinity College. She specialises in EU law and employment law. She is author of EU Employment Law (Oxford, OUP, 2016, 5th ed.), The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, (Oxford, OUP, 2016, 5th ed), and (with Peers ed) European Union Law (Oxford, OUP, 2014, second edition 2017). Currently, Catherine is a Senior Fellow in the Economic and Social Research Council’s award-winning UK in a Changing Europe project which looks at all aspects of Brexit in its various manifestations. She has appeared before a number of select committees, briefed civil servants and politicians on the implications of Brexit and has appeared on both television and radio trying to explain Brexit.

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For more information please contact Claire Curran cc640@cam.ac.uk.



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