The attached pdf is my personal evidence to the 2014 enquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into religion and belief in employment etc. Before addressing some of the specific points on which the EHRC was consulting, it seeks to clarify definitions and concepts. I was subsequently invited to take part in a productive series of “EHRC and Co-exist Friends of the Chair” lunch meetings to explore some of these topics.
- Welcome
- Humanism
- Secularism
- The Challenge of Secularism
- Humanism and the Open Society
- Secularism: an approach from Human Rights
- Freedom of Religion and Belief and Freedom of Speech in an Open Society
- Secularism in Europe
- Secularism under Threat in Britain and across Europe
- Article 17: Reasons for Concern
- The Coming Coronation of Charles III
- The Open Society as seen in 1970
- Religion
- Religion and Belief in British Public Life
- Religion in Society
- Putting it in Context
- A Right to Freedom from Religion?
- Religion in the Open Society
- Religious Liberty in England
- The Limits to Legal Accommodation of Conscientious Objection
- Religion and Non-Religious Beliefs in Charity Law
- Do advancement of religious (and non-religious) beliefs deserve charity status?
- Science and Religion
- Why I am not a Christian
- Religion in Schools
- Miscellany
- Guest book
- Links
