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J Beckford, Three Paradoxes in the Relations between Religion and Politics in an English City , Review of Religious Research 39:4 (1998) 344–359.

Points to three million people associated to non-Christian religious communities living in the UK, concentrated in inner city areas.¹

“The Church's repeated state- ments of official support for multi-culturalism, coupled with its creation of a net- work of diocesan advisers on inter-faith relations, are evidence of the seriousness with which it regards this part of its mission. This does not mean, however, that all Anglican clergy or laity are enthusiastic about multi-culturalism. Nor should it be allowed to conceal the fact that Anglicans have usually been powerful enough in local communities to act as brokers on their own terms for 'other faiths.'”²

“the one-way deterministic approach which defines immigrants as "vic- tims" is unable to account for the dialectic process which interaction between the immigrant group and the state generates. This process results in the increasing integration into wider structures while, simultaneously, it fosters a separate cultural institutional identity (Werbner, 1991b:141 quoted in Lewis, 1994:72).”³

1J Beckford, Three Paradoxes in the Relations between Religion and Politics in an English City , Review of Religious Research 39:4 (1998) 344–359, 344–345.

2J Beckford, Three Paradoxes in the Relations between Religion and Politics in an English City , Review of Religious Research 39:4 (1998) 344–359, 351.

3J Beckford, Three Paradoxes in the Relations between Religion and Politics in an English City , Review of Religious Research 39:4 (1998) 344–359,