What is it about?
The article tracks how the Anglican Church has used its public and civic role to make space for the growing Muslim communities over the last forty years. These developments are seen through the lens of one city, Bradford, in the north of England, where over a fifty year period the Muslim presence grew from 3000 to 130,000. It makes clear that some expressions of Islam are easy to incorporate in the life of the city, others with isolationist mindsets pose major problems.
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Why is it important?
It is critical to get away from homogenising British Muslims. In reality there are a diversity of distinct ethno-Muslim communities seeking to transcend ethnic, sectarian and inter-generational divides.
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I lived in Bradford - the focus of this study - for thirty years, lecturing in the Peace Studies department of the local university , while also advising Anglican bishops on Christian-Muslim relations. My passion is to find intellectual and practical resources - especially at city level - to live well together.
philip lewis
York St John University
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This page is a summary of: The Civic, Religious and Political Incorporation of British Muslims and the Role of the Anglican Church: Whose Incorporation, Which Islam?, Journal of Anglican Studies, June 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s174035531500011x.
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