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Students' understandings of religious identities and relations: issues of social cohesion and citizenship
The focus in this article is on issues of social cohesion and citizenship as they relate to students' understandings of religion and religious identity. The article draws on data gathered from a study conducted at a highly diverse English comprehensive school and is set amid broader anxieties about religion, community disharmony and national identity in the United Kingdom. The high levels of religious diversity at the school were seen as supporting social cohesion - enabled in this context through students' understandings of religion and religious identities as socially contingent and supportive of a sense of agency. These understandings are aligned with a sophisticated and inclusive citizenship - one that is productive of democratic alliances and political agency and necessary in disrupting the narrow and problematic understandings of religion that can lead to social disharmony and conflict.
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Education, citizenship and social justiceVolume
9Issue
1Pagination
81 - 93Publisher
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London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1746-1979eISSN
1746-1987Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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