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Norman Bonney
In an era of increased secularism and religious diversity, the historic relationship between the state and established religion at the highest constitutional levels is evident in the largely unchallenged official Anglican religious practices of the UK Parliament and the monarchy. Since devolution in 1999 the elected parliament and assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have developed alternative, but still strictly controlled solutions to the inherent tensions between the spheres of the state and religion—a multi-faith Time for Reflection in Scotland, secular norms with secondary recognition of diverse religion in Wales and silent contemplation in Northern Ireland. Each set of rituals symbolically express power relationships and divergent national self-understandings of the relationships between religions and parliaments and resolve inherent tensions between the two. The newer ones also now provide models for possible future change at Westminster even though current arrangements there seem deeply embedded.
