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Our Secular State?

Erin Wilson on the persistent role of religion in the politics of the secular state.

Dr Erin Wilson is the Director of the Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain at the University of Groningen in the the Netherlands. The Centre explores, from various perspectives, the contentious role of religion in the public sphere in contemporary Western and global society. She sat down with CPX to discuss the fact that many of the rights and values Western Secular Society holds dear actually spring from Christian origins.