Research pages

Current and Past research projects

Current and past research projects of the Centre include:

• The Community Religions Project, which celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2011.
  
• Effective Community Policing: Negotiating Changing Religious Identities (with the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme and the Metropolitan Police). Report available from the download area.
• Media portrayals of religion and the secular sacred: a longitudinal study of British newspaper and television representations and their reception (AHRC/ESRC Large Research Grant). Report available from the download area.
• Sexuality and global faith networks: a social topography (AHRC/ESRC Large Research Grant). Report available from the download area.
• Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme including Leeds based network on 'Writing British-Asian Cities' (Arts and Humanities Research Council)
• The roots, practices and consequences of terrorism: A literature review of research in the arts and humanities (Home Office) - available from the download area.
• Locating religion in the fabric of the secular: An experiment in two public sector organisations. Report available from the download area.
• Gender and Kamma in Theravada Buddhism: the Thai Bhikkhuni Movement and Women's Empowerment (British Academy)
• Taking faiths seriously: understanding the relationships between values and beliefs, societies, states and development (Department of International Development, University of Birmingham)
• Leeds pilot faiths consultation exercise on restorative justice and the rehabilitation of young male ex-offenders (Community Religions Project). Report available from the download area.