International Conference: Laïcité(s): Religion et espace public/Religion and State in the public sphere

Door nelleke op di, 10/08/2019 - 10:41

Location: Université Clermont Auvergne, Maison des sciences de l’homme (Frankrijk)
Date: 21-22/11/2019 / 13:45 – 18:30 and 9:00 – 17:30

Relations between religions and the State are well known to take multiple forms throughout the world. Some countries know an officially watertight separation between the two; others give a primary place to a given religion in the social order, to the exclusion of all others; others still have a State religion or established churches while at the same time guaranteeing freedom of conscience as well as forbidding any faith-based discrimination. Between the extreme of State atheism and the other extreme of a system explicitly based on the precepts of a given religion, the range of relations between Religion and the State is very wide. This interdisciplinary conference intends to describe and to analyse this diversity.

The full program can be found here.