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Adam Smith and Scotland in the Age of Enlightenment
Read moreby Craig Smith 2023 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith. Smith is one of the very…
Utopia: A round-table discussion
Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
The Qur’an and the Just Society
I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to…
George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…
Judging a book by its cover: designing ‘The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy’
Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
Secularisation and religious decline in 21st-century Scotland
By Ben Clements. My Scottish Affairs research looks in detail at recent survey data on religious decline and secularisation in…
Appropriating Christian History in Fujian: Red Tourism Meets the Cross
In the early years of China’s Civil War, the Communist army and leadership sought refuge from Nationalist troops in the…
The Woman on Westminster Bridge
A woman walks across a bridge. She is looking at her mobile. She seems to be in a hurry. Close…
Contemporary Turkey in Conflict
By Tahir Abbas Turkey is a beguiling country. It straddles one of the most important geopolitical fault lines in the…
Muslims in Scotland: Demographic, social and cultural characteristics
By Stefano Bonino First published on the LSE Religion and the Public Sphere blog – read the original article Far…