Who cares if Britain isn't a Christian country?

Just how 'religious' is Britain? Is the UK a secular state? Multi-faith? Christian? What do such definitions mean both practically for the infrastructure of civil society and culturally in terms of how we view ourselves and others? Does having a formal label actually make a difference to what happens on the ground, to the experiences and activities of individuals and local communities?

Speakers include:

Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt DD FBA
Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford

Professor Iain McLean FBA
Professor of Politics, University of Oxford

Professor Mona Siddiqui OBE
Professor of Islamic and Inter-religious Studies, University of Edinburgh

Polly Toynbee
Vice-President and Patron, British Humanist Association
Columnist, Guardian