State Responses to Security Threats and Religious Diversity: What Future for Europe in the 21st Century?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

State Responses to Security Threats and Religious Diversity: What Future for Europe in the 21st Century?

Original language description

The main objective of this conference is to analyze state responses to security threats and the impact this will have on religious diversity in Central and Eastern Europe. What impact do state policies on religious engagement have on attempts to protect national security? How do national and international approaches to religion and religion-related conflict promote stability or further inflame religious tensions? According to recent research, violence associated with religion is on the rise globally. Needless to say, the rise of Islamic state, terrorist groups claiming religious goals, and growing tension in European societies are problems we have to address today. A more stringent approach to different religious communities, and in some cases open discrimination by governments are some new trends emerging in Europe. How do we address these recent developments? An important and timely question is how legal and social restrictions on religion relate to the growth of religious conflicts and violence? Are the societal interests of religious freedom and national seurity bound to be in tension or can they become mutually supportive? Given the fact that even liberal European states are implementing laws that are in fact forcing religious communities to cultural conformity, we are most probably facing a beginning of a crisis of the secular model as a tolerant and diverse society. Some post-Communist states appear to be abandoning the secular model altogether, moving towards strong state identification with a dominant religion and hostility towards religious minorities. Facing these challenges to a secular model of religious pluralism may force us to rethink the origins and development of the toleration model in Europe, and its application across Europe and Eastern Europe.

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Type

M - Conference organization

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Prague

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

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Total number of attendees

65

Foreign attendee count

58

Type of event by attendee nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce