Participants of the project

Professor of Practical Theology / Religious Education, University of Würzburg

www.rp.theologie.uni-wuerzburg.de

Associate researcher religion and human rights, Radboud University Nijmegen

www.johannesvanderven.nl

Visiting researcher at Würzburg University

Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion, Vytautas Magnus University

www.vdu.lt

“One of the major things in this project is its international perspective. The relation between religion and Human Rights is very important and relevant for my own country as well and I am glad that I will be able to share my insights on the situation in Lithuania with colleagues from other countries.”

University Pontificia Salesiana

www.unisal.it

Researcher of Political Science, Centre for church research Norway

www.kifo.no

“I think this project about Human Rights is very important also in Norway. We recently had a church state system what is now formally abandoned it and it is very interesting to see what will happen regarding the situation of religious rights.”

Scientific researcher of Sociology, Centre for Independent Research St. Petersburg

www.cisr.ru

“I’m very glad to be involved in this promising and ambitious project that, since it involves twenty countries, is rather a comparison research between those countries.”

Eurpean Humanities University, Vilnius

www.ehu.lt

Head of the department of Sociology, Croation Catholic University

www.unicath.hr

University of South Africa, Pretoria

www.unisa.ac.za

Associate Professor of Islamic Studies / History of Islam, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

www.uni-sofia.bg

“I think it’s a great project because it covers a huge and diverse territory of different countries. And this is also why it is a big challenge, though I am confident that this will be a great success.”

Researcher and academican in the field of religious studies, The Open University of Tanzania

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University of Warwick

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/

Professor for empirical research in religion and interreligious communication, University of Bern

http://www.theol.unibe.ch/ipt/content/ueber_uns/mitarbeitende/prof_dr_stefan_huber/index_ger.html

University of Thessaloniki

http://www.auth.gr/

Ponteficia Universidad Catolika

http://teologia.uc.cl

Department of Psychology, Cumhuriyet University

www.cumhuriyet.edu.tr

“This project will be very useful for the Turkish population in terms of understanding their attitudes towards human rights and the social problems related to them.”

Professor for Theological Anthropology and Fundamental Theology, University Antonianum of Rome

www.antonianum.eu

University of Belgrade

www.bg.ac.rs/en_index.php

Professor at West University of Timisoara

http://dev.doctorat.uvt.ro/?p=904#more-904

Sacred Heart College, Tamil Nadu, India

Center for the study of Law and Religion, Emery University of Law

www.cslr.law.emory.edu

Staff Attorney at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative Kyiv

Pontificial University Santiago de Chile

http://teologia.uc.cl/Details/Silva-Soler-Joaquin.html

Sociologist, Uppsala University

www.crs.uu.se

“Researching Human Rights and Religion is very important to increase the culture of Human Rights in European Countries.”

Associate Professor Empirical Religious Studies

Radboud University Nijmegen, NL

www.ru.nl/ftr

Senior Lecturer for Contemporary Social Theory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

http://users.auth.gr/tsironis/

"This project truly is a challenge and an invitation. The Religion and Human Rights topic is a crucial field of research and a paradigm of interdisciplinary work"

Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv

Dragomanov University Kyiv

www.ucu.edu

“We’re witnessing the so-called great returning of religion in a rather aggressive manner. So the ways of reconciliation between the two sources of authority, religion and politics, is a great scientific and societal task.”

St. Tikon's Orthodox University

http://pstgu.ru/en/

Lecturer of Practical Theology, Apulian Theological Faculty

www.facoltateologica.it

Institute of Sociology, Jageiellonian University

Coordinator of the Civil Integration Program by Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Ilia State Univercity, Georgia

www.cippd.org

“We experience now a renaissance of religion and also tendencies of secularization in Georgia. The results from this research can help us to explain these in our modern society.”