Disciplina e prassi della bilateralità pattizia e amministrativa

In the Italian legal system, confessional pluralism is strongly in!uenced by bilateral (State-Confessional) laws as regulated by Articles 7.1 and 8.3 of the Constitution, normally called the bilateralism method. This article aims to demonstrate that other instruments of State-Church collaboration have emerged in the last decade, what may be called the method of administrative bilateralisms, which operates at different levels (national, regional, local) of democratic participation. By this method, public authorities and confessions other than Catholicism (including those not yet legally recognized as religions, as is the case of many Muslim organizations) try to respond to the practical needs related to the rights to religious freedom of believers and their communities. Keywords: Italy, Constitution, confessions, Church, bilateralism, freedom, relations, administration, problems.