Thursday, September 11, 2025
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| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening (S-3) - Anne-Laure Zwilling (EUREL), Miroslav Tížik (Slovak Academy of Sciences), Róbert Karul (Slovak Academy of Sciences), Marián Zouhar (Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava),Thomas Perrin (Ambassy of France in Slovakia) | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Religion and Belief Equality under Directive 2000/78: Challenges for EU Integration (S-3) - Lucy Vickers (introduction and chair: Romain Mertens) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Spirituality and alternative religiosities (S-2) - Tatiana Bužeková | (+) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | › Alternative spiritual community as a factor of social support - Danijela Jerotijevic, Comenius University in Bratislava | |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | › Pagans Reborn! The History of Modern Slovak Paganism 1990 – 2025 - Michal Puchovský, Institute for Sociology of Slovak Academy of Sciences | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › Occulture, Media, and the Collapse of Yugoslavia: A Study of Tajne Magazine (1987–1994) - Maria Pinal Villanueva, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › La résurgence des cultes polythéistes en Grèce et en Italie : transformations religieuses et enjeux de reconnaissance dans l'espace public européen - Nephelie Skarlatos, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, École française dÁthènes | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Law, human rights and religion (S-3) - Romain Mertens | (+) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | › Challenges to the Soul of Europe by Religious Pluralism, Political Ideologies and Secularism - Per Pettersson, Karlstad University, Sweden and Uppsala University, Sweden | |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | › Transformations of human dignity in Christian Churches in Slovakia - Lubomir Batka, Comenius University in Bratislava | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › A comparative study of the dynamics of political orientations and attitudes toward selected human rights issues in the context of religiosity - Iveta Štefanovičová, Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › Countering the Challenges to Gender justice, rights and democratic sustainability among migrant Muslim women communities in Europe - TEHSEEN NISAR, COPAIR | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch coffe break | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Religion within political and activist discourses (S-2) - (1) Anne Lancien | (+) |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | › Le rapport de force entre l'Église orthodoxe et les forces pro-occidentales en Géorgie - Shorena ASABASHVILI, Centre d'histoire des sociétés Médiévales et Modernes | |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | › Changing Legitimation strategies by using a complex concept of Christianity in political discourses - A Hungarian case study - Anna Vancsó, Slovak Academy of Science [Bratislava] | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | › Rethinking the Religious Dimension in Populist Radical Right Discourse: A Socio-Cultural Approach - Konstantinos Papastathis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Stavroula Koskina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Between religious and nonreligious worlds (S-3) - Juraj Majo | (+) |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | › Alternative spiritual practices in Slovakia: lived experience, identity, and community - Tatiana Bužeková, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava | |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | › Alternative spiritualities in Slovakia and their expressions in personal development in the workplace - Zuzana Bártová, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice | |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | › « Les athées baptisés » : la reconnaissance des religions en Turquie contemporaine face aux tensions politico-religieuses - Kerem Gorkem Arslan, Droit, religion, entreprise et société, lÍnstitut Français dÉtudes Anatoliennes | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | › Distinct (Non)Religious Views on the Environment - Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme - Lauren Strumos, University of Waterloo and University of Alberta Augustana | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Religion within political and activist discourses (S-2) - (2) - Norbet Kmeť | (+) |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | › Religious Policies and the Role of Religion in the South Caucasus Since 1991: A Comparative Perspective - Ansgar Jödicke, University of Fribourg, Department of Social Sciences | |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | › Character and Historical Roots of a Special State Christianity: Case of Hungary - Csaba Fazekas, University of Miskolc, Hungary | |
| 16:15 - 16:40 | › Paradoxes of (Il)liberal democracy: the role of Christian Democracy - Martino Comelli, Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Science [Bratislava] | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | › The Notion of Dynamic Neutrality and the European Court of Human Rights in the Era of Religious Change - Tsevas Christos, Democritus University of Thrace, Faculty of Law, Komotini, Greece | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Migrations and religious landscapes (S-3) - Miroslav Tížik | (+) |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | › The Influence of Slovak Religious Communities on the Residence Strategies of Ukrainian Refugees with Temporary Protection - Mariia Kazmyrchuk, Taras Shevchenko National University of Кyiv, Faculty of History, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | › Negotiating the Issues of Religious Identity and Belonging in the Refugee Stories - Anita Stasulane, Daugavpils University, Latvia | |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | › Faith on the Move: Exploring the Religious Life of Labor Immigrants in Croatia - Nikolina Hazdovac Bajić, University of Dubrovnik - Siniša Zrinščak, University of Zagreb | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | › Transnationalisation of the Vojvodina Slovak Community and the Dynamics of its Religiosity - Juraj Marušiak - Sanja Zlatanović, Institute of Political Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Book presentation Religion and Covid 19 in Europe (S-2) - Brian Conway | |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Invitation of the book |
Friday, September 12, 2025
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Christian nationalism and liberal democracy: Europe and the USA in comparative focus (S-3) - Jeffrey Haynes (introduction and chair: Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Islam in Europe (S-2) - Anne-Laure Zwilling | (+) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | › Transformations communautaires et nouveaux acteurs religieux en Europe : le cas de l'islam caucasien en France - Tamerlan QULIYEV, Université de Strasbourg, ITI MAKErS - Fabrique de la société européenne | |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | › Research on the leisure activities of Muslim associations in Germany and Austria - Martin Klapetek, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › La Russie, le MMA et l'Islam : Transformation géopolitique et religieuse à l'ère du soft power et du hard power en Europe - Kevan Gafaïti, Centre Thucydide (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas), Sciences Po Paris | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › Entre tradition et modernité : L'application du droit musulman en Thrace dans un contexte européen en mutation - Georgios Karantzios, Doctorant contractuel | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Empirical investigations (S-3) - Juraj Marušiak | (+) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | › Decline and persistence of religiosity in the contemporary world - Franz Höllinger, University of Graz | |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | › Society and Religion in the Brno-Country District - Miroslav Horák, Mendel University in Brno | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › So close and yet so far: The impact of COVID-19-related governmental restrictions on religious life in Slovakia - Michal Uhrin, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › Religion and (anti)migrant attitudes in Croatia - Željko Pavić, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer Univerity of Osijek - Mateo Žanić, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
