This year the LSE opens a state of the art Faith Centre to provide religious facilities and opportunities for interfaith engagement for its staff and students. This clearly marks a shift in the way in which the secular university engages with religious identity and reflects changes taking place across the UK Higher Education sector. This session will explore how religion impacts on the university through equality legislation, campus cohesion issues and as a changing factor in youth identity. It will consider the dangers as well as the opportunities raised by these trends and considers how a university like LSE may need to continue to reconsider religion and belief in the future.