By James Walters, Chris Chaplin, Hanane Benadi and Lindsay Simmonds
LSE Religion and Global Society was founded in 2019 as an interdisciplinary research unit conducting, coordinating and promoting religion-related social science research at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It works with a number of departments, including Anthropology and International Relations, and is hosted in the LSE Faith Centre which has a mission to promote robust religious plurality within the university and beyond.
Since 2021, Global Religious Pluralities, generously funded by the Templeton Religion Trust, has enabled us to explore the critical intersections of religious pluralism with gender, climate change and the role of institutions such as universities. We combine research and practice, working with stakeholders around the world to advance peaceful religiously plural societies.
This report gives an overview of the project, documenting our activities and principal research insights in three strands: an examination of religiously plural spaces in universities, an enquiry into the distinctive contribution that women of faith make to peacebuilding, and an exploration of how non-Western religious communities are interpreting their experience of climate change and seeing it as a focus of interfaith organisation.
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