Lonergan, G, Lewis, H, Tomalin, E orcid.org/0000-0001-7722-1192 et al. (1 more author) (2021) Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK. Sociology, 55 (3). pp. 505-521. ISSN 0038-0385
Abstract
This article examines the intersection of religious faith and the ‘fight against modern slavery’ in the UK, as yet unexplored in sociological literature. Analysis of faith-based organisations’ activities in this area challenges understandings of a postsecular rapprochement between faith and secular actors – where postsecular is used by some scholars to refer to the re-emergence of faith in the public sphere, and where we understand rapprochement to mean the placing of equal value on faith-based and secular worldviews. Our research reveals that faith-based organisations in the anti-trafficking/modern slavery third sector operate on a ‘dual register’, secularising as they professionalise their public face, while retaining religious distinctiveness when engaging with co-religionists. We argue that, rather than evidence of a genuine two-way postsecular rapprochement, it seems that faith-based organisations in this sector are prioritising secular modalities, meaning the learning process is one-sided rather than complementary.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This item is protected by copyright, all rights reserved. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | faith, human trafficking, modern slavery, postsecular, welfare pluralism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > SOG: Cities & Social Justice (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) ES/N014979/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2020 10:40 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2022 11:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0038038520967887 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:166392 |