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Welcome
Welcome to the Faiths and Civil Society Unit; a centre for excellence in the development of policy, practice and research in the area of faiths and civil society. The Unit draws together policy makers, practitioners and researchers from a range of faiths, sectors and disciplines to conduct programmes of work to address practical and conceptual questions arising in the context of a strong policy agenda for faiths in the public realm in the UK and elsewhere.
See our principles, values and purposes.
Three arenas of public faith
- Social action & communities
- Participatory governance
- Community cohesion and prevention of extremism
News & Events
- FaithxChange Event 2 - Leeds, 2nd July 2010. Book now.
- Access Adam Dinham's new article, 'What is a Faith Community?"
- New Fellow - We are delighted to welcome a new Fellow to the Faiths & Civil Society Unit, Samuel Klein. Samuel is Executive Director of the Coexistence Trust.
- This month's FCSU Digest
- FaithXChange - new website, please visit!
- Adam Dinham's book, Faiths, Public Policy and Civil Society: Problems, Policies, Controversies, is now available from www.palgrave.com. See flyer and order form [pdf].
- The Faiths & Civil Society Unit launches new book, 'Faith in the public realm' [pdf download]
- Dr. Dinham: Directorship of Commonwealth Scholarship Commission's Faith & Civil Society Network extended into 2010.