Re-Imagining Religion and Belief

<p>The need to reimagine religion and belief is precipitated by their greater visibility in public life. Meanwhile social policy responses often see them from a problem-based rather than an asset-based approach. However with growing diversity of religion and belief in every sector comes the potential for new dialogues across previously impermeable policy and disciplinary silos.</p><p> This volume brings together leading international authors to critically consider these challenges within legal and policy frameworks including security and cohesion welfare law health and social care inequality cohesion extremism migration and abuse. It 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 that are essential to a coherent policy approach to diversity enhanced democracy and participation.</p>