The Research Center for Religious Diversity (Forschungsstelle für religiöse Vielfalt) was established in 2023 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Germany.
Mission: to establish and explore paths to achieve fruitful conviviality of persons and groups of different religious affiliations. We also seek to examine mechanisms of construction of religious identities in a globalized world and to work against tendencies of segmentation and seclusion.
Vision: We envision a European society marked by peaceful religious coexistence, enriched by its diversity and strengthened by social cohesion and respectful interaction between the faiths, on institutional and individual levels.
On October 20, 2025 the Research Center for Religious Diversity received a special guest: Dr. Maayan Raveh, the Academic Director of the "Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies" at the University of Haifa in Israel.
The informal meeting in the premises of the research center was aimed at prepari...
At the invitation of Timm Karlas, the subject officer for Ethics at the Ministry of Education for Gymnasiums in Middle Franconia, Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe and Dr. Katja Thörner represented the Research Center for Religious Diversity at the Ethics Subject Teachers Conference held on October 20, 20...
On October 7, 2025, the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel marked its second anniversary. The Research Center for Religious Diversity took this occasion to reflect on the changes that have occurred in Germany during this time.
The workshop, held on October 16, 2025, in Erlangen, began with ...
At the invitation of the Integration Guidance Office of the Diaconal Work of Oberpfalz Central-North, our research center participated -with a team of four staff members- in a training session for volunteers involved in refugee aid on July 12 and 13, 2025, at the Conference House Johannisthal n...
At the specialist-conference "Muslim Life in Bavaria", co-organized by our Research Center, more than 180 stakeholders from mosque associations and organizations, cultural associations, integration projects, educational institutions, schools and universities, social and women's work, sports, as wel...
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