The Religions in the UK Directory 2007-10 Edition

ISBN: 978-0-901437-30-3

Religions in the UK has become the standard work of reference on the United Kingdom's faith communities, thier organisations and palces of worship. It is the product of a joint project between The Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Derby and the University of Derby's Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences, and builds upon previous collaborations with the Inter Faith Network for the UK in its 1993, 1997 and 2001 editions.

The 2001 edition won the SHAP Working Party on World Religions in Education annual award for making 'an outstanding contribution to the teaching of world religions'. This updated and improved fourth edition of Religions in the UK builds on the previous three editions with the following improvements: 

• Expanded and updated contact details for religious organisations available now on CD-ROM 

• Details now included on Christian places of worship

• Additional information on many of the listed organisations

• Fully revised chapter on the religious landscape of the UK and the role of its faith communities in public life

The Directory is edited by Paul Weller, Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby (Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences) and Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Christianity and Culture, at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. 

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Research Papers

This section of the site is devoted to the publication of completed research papers. Please feel free to provide feedback either to the author or on the message board.

These papers date back to the originating period of the Centre and its development. New articles will be added in due course.

Paulo F. M. Gonçalves (University of Derby)
A Critique of Thomas V. Morris's Use of Natural Kind Terms in The Logic of God Incarnate (September, 2000)

Seminar Papers

This section of the site is devoted to providing access to rough or early draft versions of seminar and conference papers which have not yet been published, as a useful means of generating feedback and discussion on work in progress. Please feel free to provide feedback either to the author or on the message board. Given that these are rough drafts, provided solely for the purpose of feedback and discussion, rather than completed publications, quotation from, or reference to these papers in work which you may be writing, requires the author's prior permission.

Pam Sutton (University of Derby)

A Baha'i viewpoint of how Religious Conversion may be similar to change within Therapy

Balbinder Singh Bhogal (University of Derby)
Glimpses of Postmodernism (Deconstruction) and Religion (November, 1995)

Balbinder Singh Bhogal (University of Derby)
Discussion about orality and literacy based on Murray Jardine's Sight, Sound, and Epistemology: the Experiential Sources of Ethical Concepts, JAAR LXIV/1 (December, 1996)

Balbinder Singh Bhogal (University of Derby)
Resisting the myth of finality: Hermeneutics, Nonduality and the Japji (April, 1998)

Eileen Fry
Ethics and the Qualitative Study of Religion (November, 2000)

Paulo F. M. Gonçalves (University of Derby)
Towards a Hermeneutic Phenomenology (Spring, 2000)

Draft Papers

This section of the site is devoted to providing access to draft versions of papers which have not yet been published, as a useful means of generating feedback and discussion on work in progress prior to publication. Please feel free to provide feedback either to the author or on the message board. Given that these are drafts, provided solely for the purpose of feedback and discussion, rather than completed publications, quotation from, or reference to these papers in work which you may be writing, requires the author's prior permission.

Ahmed Andrews (University of Derby)
Bereavement Support among Ethnic Minority Communities in Derby: A Report for Action for Bereavement Care (Derby) (1996)

Ahmed Andrews, Sue Jeffels, Adham Ali Khan, and Paul Weller (University of Derby)
Places of Worship As Settings For Health Promotion: Pilot Research and Development Project (in the City Challenge Area of Derby) (September, 1995)

Ahmed Andrews (University of Derby) and Curt Dahlgren (University of Lund)
All Saints Day in Sweden: Syncretism, Spirituality, Individualism and National Identity (November, 2000)

David Chalcraft (University of Derby)
Max Weber on the Watchtower: On the Prophetic Use of Shakespeare's Sonnet 102 in 'Politics as a Vocation' (December, 2000)

Eileen Fry (University of Derby)
A Personal Perspective on the Historical Development of Hatha Yoga in England: the methodologies to be employed (June, 2000)

Paulo F. M. Gonçalves (University of Derby)
Transcendence 'After the Body'? A Deconstructive Perspective on Bodily Identity (June, 1998)

Paulo F. M. Gonçalves (University of Derby)
Heidegger's Understanding of Metaphysics and Ontotheology (March, 1999)

Eleanor Jackson (University of Derby)
Caste, Culture and Conversion from the Perspective of an Indian Christian Family based in Madras 1863-1906 (July, 1999)

Eleanor Jackson (University of Derby)
From Krishna Pal to Lal Behari Dey: Indian Builders of the Church in India or Native Agency in Bengal 1800-1880 (December, 2000)

Paul Weller and Ahmed Andrews (University of Derby)
Religions and Statistics Research Project: Report of the Pilot Phase (January, 1996)

Michele M. Wolfe (University of Derby)
Muslim Death in England and the Constraints Encountered (June, 2000)

Reprinted Papers

This section of the site is devoted to the publication of papers which have been published elsewhere, which have either gone out of print or which we have permission to reproduce. It also contains links to papers by University of Derby Religious Studies Staff which have been published elsewhere on the web. Please feel free to provide feedback either to the author or on the message board. For papers reissued on this site, dates in parentheses after titles indicate date of publication on this site, with details of the original place and date of publication beneath.

Richard King (University of Derby)
Exctracts from Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India, and 'The Mystic East'
London: Routledge, 1999.

Paul Weller (University of Derby)
Faith and Justice: Issues of Justice within Differing Faith Communities (December, 2000)
Originally published in World Faiths Encounter, No. 22, March 1999, pp. 16-28.

Paul Weller and Ahmed Andrews (University of Derby)
Counting Religion: Religion, Statistics and the 2001 Census (December, 2000)
Originally published in World Faiths Encounter, No. 21, November 1998, pp. 23-34.