Book review: claims of religious resurgence may have more to do with ‘academic novelty-seeking’ than the realities of secular Britain

This important new volume seeks to provide a significant contribution to our understanding of religion and politics, demonstrating through comparisons with other countries the unusually complex nature of the interaction of religion and politics in the United Kingdom. John Anderson finds that the book offers robust analysis on secular Britain and media representation of religious identities. Politics and Religion in the United Kingdom. Steve Bruce. Routledge. October 2011.