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Ethnicity, religious belonging, and inter faith encounter: Some survey findings from East London

Pages 333-351 | Published online: 25 Jun 2008

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  • I would like to thank the Newham Association of Faiths and their former secretary Doris Sadeghi in particular for the inspiration and marshalling of slender resources which made this research possible. 1 would also like to acknowledge the remarkable efforts of their various teams of volunteer interviewers without whom the fieldwork could never have been undertaken. Finally, I wish to thank Dr. Grace Davie of the University of Exeter for her interest in this work and her valuable comments on early drafts of this paper. A popular report of the basic findings of the survey Inter‐Faith Relationships: What Do Newham People Think? is available from the Newham Association of Faiths, Froud Centre, 1 Toronto Avenue London E12 9JF (for £1 plus SAE), while full details of the statistical analysis on which this paper is based and copies of the questionnaire and SPPS‐PC data set (on disk or by e‐mail) may be obtained by contacting the author.

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