D7.2 Proceedings of the Workshop (Mainz, September 19th and 20th 2019)

Dissemination of the results of the workshop

The workshop is a part of Work Package 7 “History of Religious Studies in the Age of Big-Data: Developing New Methodologies” and a central output of the Task 7.2 “Religious conflicts, peacemaking, and the shaping of reflective European societies”. “The task examines how the creation of an academic community on religious studies in a pan-European historical perspective can interact with processes of religious (and secular) community and identity building on a regional and local level. It aims to show to what extent and in which ways a transnational academic approach to historical religious issues can interact with the internal dynamics of religious and non-religious groups, and how a historical analysis of European religious diversity and conflict in a global context can foster the implementation of interreligious and religious-secular dialogue in European societies.”1 To reach the stated aims a workshop on religious peace-making and coexistence was organized by the IEG on 19/20.09.2019 with a title "The practice of religious toleration in past and contemporary Europe".