RETOPEA - Religious Toleration and Peace

As a follow up of RETOPEA we are developing an online exhibition on "Imagining Religious (In)Tolerance in European history", specially designed for young people.

👉 You can find more information here: https://kadoc.kuleuven.be/english/08_projects/2025/2025_02_religioustolerance

It will be published on Kadoc Erfgoed in the first half of 2026.
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This weekend KU Leuven celebrates its 600 anniversary with a series of activities to promote academic research to a broad public (https://www.kuleuven.be/over-kuleuven/600y-ku-leuven ). RETOPEA is present as well.

New publication coming out of the RETOPEA project, presenting the clippings collection and how to use them in both formal and informal educational settings:

Teaching and Learning About Religious Diversity in the Past and Present This book explores the concepts of religious diversity, toleration and peace-making in politics and law, and how these examples can inform education today.

💭📣Es ist wieder soweit: Ihr könnt euch zum Speeddating der Wissenschaft anmelden und 25 min einer Expertin oder einem Experten Löcher in den Bauch fragen. Hier könnt ihr ein Gespräch mit unserem Wissenschaftler Henning P. Jürgens zum EU-Projekt buchen: https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/neues/veranstaltungen/book-a-scientist -topic-467

CORDIS article on RETOPEA

An update of the Results Pack on Insights into Extremism (2nd ed.) can be found here: https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/443390-research-and-strategies-to-prevent-radicalisation-and-violent-extremism?WT.mc_id=exp
and a brief report on RETOPEA here: https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/443343-looking-to-the-past-docutube-helps-teens-think-reflect-and-discuss-religion?WT.mc_id=exp

Looking to the past: Docutube helps teens think, reflect and discuss religion Researchers use the learning with history approach to promote religious and convictional toleration among European youth.,,,European...

Call for papers Second World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation on the topic: Religion and Politics: is Secularization a Myth or a Reality?, June 19-22, 2024 Strumica,
North Macedonia (Hotel Sirius):

2nd World Conference 2nd World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperatio June 19-22, 2024 Strumica, North Macedonia (Hotel Sirius) INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHORS – PDF Call for papers FINAL PROGRAM (June 2024) RE…

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We are happy to inform you that our project, officially concluded in October, has received final positive feedback from European Commission and its external experts! Please visit
CORDIS_EU portal to learn about results of our efforts https://tinyurl.com/retopea-cordis in 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 🇩🇪

The project was guided and coordinated over these years by
Patrick Pasture of KU Leuven, and gathered team members from 10 academic institutions and NGOs from Spain, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Finland, Northern Macedonia, and United Kingdom.

All team members celebrate reaching this milestone and at the same time we look forward to what is ahead of us, i.e. further implementation of both our educational tools in various social, ethnic and religious contexts and the policy recommendations developed by our experts

Looking to the past: Docutube helps teens think, reflect and discuss religion Researchers use the learning with history approach to promote religious and convictional toleration among European young people.

RETOPEA on the Cordis research page

Looking to the past: Docutube helps teens think, reflect and discuss religion Researchers use the learning with history approach to promote religious and convictional toleration among European young people.

It’s Worth Asking: Religion and Democracy

The Fernando Henrique Cardoso Foundation launched its new video series “It’s Worth Asking”, with subtitles in English, available in Youtube’s settings. The videos address a fundamental topic for the future of Brazilian democracy: the relationship between State and religion.
What are the changes in the Brazilian religious landscape? How do such changes impact democracy? What is secularism? Is Brazil a secular state? We brought together nine specialists to answer these questions and more.
Click here to watch the series :

www.youtube.com

Quite an intensive day at KADOC KU Leuven as we went through the final review of the project. Great opportunity to summarize what we achieved and to look at challenges that are still ahead of us. Although the project is formally concluded, RETOPEA will continue to operate