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Mediating Institutions Between Religion and Civil Society

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This chapter asks about those institutions that mediate between the religious and the secular across entire societies: faith schools, educational and other chaplaincies, established religions, church reports, church-based umbrella organisations, inter faith fora, marriage, and state-funded organisations designed to relate faith communities to each other and to wider society. Most of the case studies are taken from the UK, but a peace fellowship in the USA is also discussed. The chapter emphasises the importance of religious literacy among secular organisations and secular literacy among religious ones. It again finds the churches’ clergy to be an essential mediating institution, and it encourages the churches to keep mediating institutions in good repair.

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Torry, M. (2016). Mediating Institutions Between Religion and Civil Society. In: Mediating Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94913-7_5

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