God’s work? The battle over religious belief in the office
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By Scott Taylor, University of Birmingham
What do you want from your employer at Easter? A chocolate egg? A big slice of Simnel cake? Some time off? An invitation to attend a Christian church service? Or nothing at all, because you don’t find Easter meaningful and would rather your workplace was entirely secular?
Managerial responses to the cultural complexity of religious diversity range from following highly structured legal guidance to informal acceptance of contemporary pluralism by working around staff beliefs. There are legal frameworks in most countries to either protect or exclude religious belief from workplaces. But how these are worked out in practice creates considerable controversy. And when we consider religious belief alongside sexual orientation or ethnicity, then we’re almost certain of dispute.
So what happens if you are required to follow a specific belief system at work? If you’re an Anglican priest, then it shouldn’t cause you a problem to believe in God as part...
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