Boundaries and Beliefs: migration, identity, religion and heritage in contemporary Europe

“Boundaries and Beliefs” seeks to analyse the significance of religion and religious heritage to a diverse array of migrant populations, and their relationships to their host society counterparts, in twentieth-century Europe. The project will interrogate the motivations and means in which actors and organisations located at the crossroads of religion and migration engage the religious aspects of their faith and the related tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Concretely, the project will ask how religion and heritage are used in the formation and preservation of diasporic and migrant communities’ collective identities, and how it can serve as a dialogical tool to negotiate their place within the host society in which they find themselves.