Thomas Sealy

Thomas Sealy is currently a Research Associate on the Horizon 2020 project GREASE: Radicalisation, Secularism and the Governance of Religion at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. His research interests are in the areas of multiculturalism, religious identity, religious conversion, and religion, politics and secularism.

What can multiculturalism offer in the fight against racism in Britain?

Claims about the failure of multiculturalism are persistent yet, they are also consistently inaccurate.

By Thomas Sealy

/ 23 Nov 2020

What can multiculturalism offer in the fight against racism in Britain?

Back to the future of multi-ethnic Britain

The route towards an anti-racist, inclusive Britain exists, but who is willing to take it?

By Thomas Sealy

/ 21 Jul 2020

Back to the future of multi-ethnic Britain

Is there a difference between a niqab and a face mask?

The prevalence of face masks to fight the COVID-19 pandemic might help spark a more constructive conversation on the niqab.

By Thomas Sealy

/ 6 May 2020

Is there a difference between a niqab and a face mask?

What is the fate of religion in Europe?

Can Europe’s traditional norms of secularism be applied to an extra-Christian religious diversity that the continent has not known before?

By Tina Magazzini, Tariq Modood, Anna Triandafyllidou and Thomas Sealy

/ 21 Apr 2020

What is the ‘proper’ place of religion?

The reality of multiculturalism in Western Europe has reawakened debates around religion’s relation to politics and place in society and the public sphere.

By Thomas Sealy

/ 3 Feb 2020

To face the rise of extremism we need words as much as actions

Religious and political responses to the Christchurch attack can tell us a great deal.

By Thomas Sealy

/ 27 Oct 2019

To face the rise of extremism we need words as much as actions