6 June 2014

Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, London School of Economics

This conference brought together scholars who work on related issues regarding religious pluralism in Turkey and in different countries across Europe. The aim was to understand the larger socio-political processes and discourses that shape and define religious diversity with an emphasis on similarities and differences.

In this context, Effie presented a paper on ‘Religious Freedom versus national identity’, which developed the notion that many religious freedom limitations are strongly linked to the often banal but not always benign expressions of the relationship between religion and national identity (whether that relationship be positive, as in the Greek or Norwegian case, or negative, as in the French or Turkish cases).

The paper presented at this LSE Conference forms part the development of the theoretical framework of the Grassrootsmobilise research programme.

Please find the Programme of the Conference here.