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On December 2nd and 3rd 2021, the international conference "Religion, State, and Law" will be held at the University of Graz resp. in the virtual space. The conference will conclude the project "Migration, Integration, Religious Diversity", which is funded by the Ministry of Science and carried out by teams at the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Catholic Theology, the Center for Southeast European Studies and the EURAC Bolzano - with further networks in Austria.

Long-term processes of transnationalization, secularization, de-secularization, and political mobilization of and by religion fostered wide-ranging and fundamental transformations in various regards. Among others, they are of great relevance for issues of social and system integration within liberal democratic states on the one hand and for international relations on the other hand. In order to elaborate on these challenges, a paradigm shift away from the Westphalian paradigm of the state and related conceptual and methodological thinking about state, law, and religion is crucial. Therefore, the conference aims at discussing inter- and intra-disciplinary perspectives of political, religious, legal, and cultural dimensions.

Conference Organisation Committee: Joseph Marko (Institute of Public Law and Political Science), Wolfgang Weirer (Institute of Catechetics and Religious Education Studies), Franz Winter (Institute of Religious Studies), Kerstin Wonisch (Eurac Research), Maximilian Lakitsch (The Foundations of Law), Lukas Waltl (Institute of Public Law and Political Science).