Dr Patrick Riordan - Assistant Director of Heythrop Institute; Researcher and Lecturer in Religion and Politics; Professor Mashood Baderin - Professor of Law at SOAS, Specialist in International and Comparative Human Rights Law and Islamic law. In this event, which is part of the Religion and Politics Series, we will be conducting a panel discussion on whether religion and modern politics and law should mix; whilst also analysing models of church-state rule, and how Christianity and Islam view political involvement.