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The International Summer School on Religion and Public Life provides a laboratory for the practical pedagogy of tolerance and living with
difference in a global society. Its goals are to produce
new practices and understandings for living together
in a world populated by people with very different
political ideas, moral beliefs and communal loyalties.
Its focus is on religion, as our religious identities
are our most exclusive and our religious communities
are those to which we devote our greatest loyalties.
In our diverse but increasingly interconnected world,
we need to find ways to live together. The school takes these very real, critical and defining differences, especially communal
and religious differences between people, as the starting
point of a publically shared life.

The 2009 ISSRPL will be from 11-21 July, in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The theme for the 2009 school is "The Language of Neighborhood and Practices of Public Life" and our local hosts will be the University of Birmingham and the Birmingham Faith Leaders Group
 The ISSRPL Occasional Paper Series has just been
launched and can be found, along with the most recent
issue
of ISSRPL NEWS in "Our Vision".
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