This week, Hannah Scott-Joynt, Leo Devine and Rosie Dawson reflect on the Religion Media Centre’s Annual Lecture which was delivered by Professor Linda Woodhead from King’s College London on Tuesday evening. Forecasting to the census results due to be published later this month, she commented on the continuing decline of Christianity, the resurgence of fundamentalism, the rise of non-religion, the emergence of British Islam and a flourishing interest in “magic”.
But the main focus of the conversation are the rise in community tensions as seen in Leicester this week. To help understand what has been going on there, and also to give advice to journalists on how to report such a complex and inflammatory subject, they are joined by Amardeep Bassey, freelance journalist and trainer, and Asha Patel, a community reporter with Leicester Live.
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