09/07/2025 14:00
- 17:30
HALL: Marietta Blau Hall
Proponent:
Christians L.,
Ferrari A.
Chair:
Christians L.
Speaker:
Baraka J.,
Berkmann B.,
Christians L.,
Dimodugno D.,
Vanbelligen L.
While the traditional model of state regulation towards religions remains essentially bilateral, encompassing both concordatarian states and separatist states, new forms of multilateral consultation between religions are emerging to interact with public authorities. These are either initiatives by the religions themselves to negotiate more strongly, or invitations from the public authorities themselves. Such initiatives encompass a range of approaches, from the encouragement of non-discriminatory policies to the stimulation of horizontal cooperation between religions. How, then, can we analyse the emergence of such practices today, in the diversity of their forms (financing of worship, multiconfessional spaces, urban management, participatory democracy, etc.)? This raises the question of how this new form of multilateralism affects, or is affected by, the internal practices of religious groups and their management of diversity, whether internal or external. It also raises the question of how one can articulate the concrete practices of "synodality" in various Christian Churches and the learning of political participatory democracy. The challenge for the panel will be to engage jurists, theologians, political scientists and socio-anthropologists in a multidisciplinary debate on these issues.