#LSEreligion lecture: “The state should not hold citizens’ values to account” – Gwen Griffith-Dickson

In May, Professor Gwen Griffith-Dickson gave a lecture at LSE entitled ‘Religion, Security and Strategy: An Unholy Trinity?’ as part of LSE’s Religion and the Public sphere lecture series. In the lecture, Griffith-Dickson explored how it is in issues relating to ‘religious extremism’ where the traditional boundaries between religion and state are breaking down. Michael Livesey writes that her talk serves as a repudiation of the benefits of the intrusions of the state into the life of public religion.