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Un appel à contribution est lancé pour un collectif sur religion and identity in Europe, discours sur le national, l'européen et le religieux, pour lequel on recherche des études de cas.Si cela vous intéresse, envoyez une proposition de 250 mots à martinahr@gmail.comand et srdjansremac@yahoo.com.*Editors:* Martina Topić (Zagreb) and Srdjan Sremac (Amsterdam)Religion bears more significance in contemporary Europe then ever.Burdened with horror of Anti-Semitism, Holocaust and numerous warsEuropean countries had among themselves, Europe decided to unite tofreely trade and for horrors of Holocaust and wars not to repeat again.Inter-confessional collaboration flourished and it seemed as if Europeindeed went towards 'Unity in diversity', at least when religion andinter-confessional dialogue is concerned.However, the threat from terrorism and radicalization of Islamists inthe world, made Europe face with growing Islamophobia and intoleranceand xenophobia towards religious 'otherness'. In that sense, aninter-confessional dialogue ran before obstacles in terms of maintainingof the religious peace in Europe. Anti-Semitism that never fullydisappeared flourished again and all this made the EU reconsider itsConstitution from which the Brussels officially deleted Christianheritage recognizing the rights of non-Christians and their longpresence in Europe as well as calming down the emotions of radical Islam by openly pointing towards exclusion of religion from public matters.However, does this work in practice? Can we ignore the importance ofreligion in Europe? Can we exclude and ignore the religious? How can wecombat religious intolerance and xenophobia towards religious 'othernesses? Can religion jeopardize the 'European project'? Howreligion affects identity creation on local and supra-national level?These and other questions will be examined in a volume concentrating on European case studies including old, new and potential EU members by examining what suits best each case with an attempt to answer theultimate question: what does religion means for Europe?