London Inter Faith Centre

The London Inter Faith Centre in seeking to be open to the interaction of and with different religious traditions, seeks also to engage with the non-specifically-religious world and with different understandings of ’secular’. Thus it sees the secularism of the UK as to be distinguished from that of say, France. In the UK the secularism is, it could be argued one of spirit rather than structure. Structually, the UK with a Head of State who is also temporal head of the religion by law established, means that the UK is not officially and structurally secular. Furthermore, even within a widespread spirit of secularism, there is a continuing sense of religious identity with which 72% of the population chose to identify in the last census

Thus the dynamic of the current British religious landscape is at once fluid and complex. While there may be religious positions and traditions which eschew the secular, the London Inter Faith Centre seeks to stand back from taking a view on this, as on individual religious standpoints, and pursues a creative engagement with the secular world as well as with the religious worlds that now have such a profile in the UK.