La disciplina del fenomeno religioso nel difficile cammino dello spazio giuridico europeo

The problem faced by societies today is not structurally different from that which has underpinned the long process of secularisation: how to reconcile unity with diversity? How to offer equal citizenship by allowing believers of different origins and denominations, as well as non-believers (atheists, agnostics or rationalists), to coexist? The difficulty of these questions is accentuated when dealing with religious freedom and when referring to the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights. They are archetypes of the new European legal space. The aim of this article is to understand the approach of this legal space with regard to the normative poles of equality and diversity, and with reference to the cultural and religious phenomena.