A Critical Exploration of Political Discourses about

In the British setting, the deployment of the phrase ‘doing god’ has become increasingly 9 common to refer to an emerging trend whereby religion has acquired an increasingly prominent 10 role in political spaces and discourses. This was particularly prominent while David Cameron was 11 Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party. While historically, religion has not had a 12 prominent place in either the former Prime Minister David Cameron. Here, the findings from 13 critical analyzing a series of Cameron’s public pronouncements about religion—and Christianity in 14 particular—is set out to try and better understand his own adherence to Christianity (the personal) 15 how this intersected with his politics and role as Prime Minister (the political), and more 16 importantly how this shaped his views about Britain being a Christian country (the national). 17 Contextualised within the embryonic scholarly literature relating to the phenomenon of ‘doing 18 god’ in the contemporary British setting, this article concludes by considering alternative and 19 analogous frames through which greater elucidation of the true motivations of his pronouncements 20 might be understood. 21