RELIGARE: Religious diversity and secular models in Europe
Programme Group Challenges to Democratic Representation
The FP7 funded RELIGARE project is about religions, belonging, beliefs and secularism in Europe. It examines the legal rules protecting or limiting (constraining) the experiences of religious or other belief-based communities.
EC, FP7 2009-2012
Over the past years a wider interest has arisen in religious and cultural diversity as a social reality in Europe. However, the ways in which this diversity is framed and treated in EU policy and across the different Member States raises a number of questions that need further reflection and study.
Where the practices of communities or individuals do not conform to State law requirements, or where communities turn to their own legal regimes or tribunals, the reasons behind these developments need to be understood.
The RELIGARE project is a three-year European research project funded by the European Commission Directorate General Research - Unit L Science, Econom and Society. It comprises 13 universities and research centres from across the European Union and Turkey.