RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY: AN EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCES BETWEEN EAST AND WEST THE CESNUR 2003 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE organized by CESNUR, Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, and New Religions Research and Information Center
	Vilnius, Lithuania, April 9-12 2003  University of Vilnius – Universiteto Str. 3, Vilnius

Cyberproceedings

Fighting the three Cs: Cults, Comics, and Communists - The Critic of Popular Culture as Origin of Contemporary Anti-Cultism, by Massimo Introvigne

Religion and Democracy After the Iraqi War, by Massimo Introvigne - Concluding Remarks at the Conference Banquet

A typology of new religious movements and its empirical indicators, by Tadeusz Doktòr, Warsaw University

The Context and some Dilemmas Concerning the Management of the Legal Studies of Minority Religions in Slovenia, by Gregor Lesjak

Images of Ukrainian Young People’s Quest for Transcendence, by Sarah Bowers, King’s College London

Possible Reasons for Monotheistic Religious Intolerance, by Frederic Lamond, MA (Independent student of Comparative Religion)

Sociological Aspects of Religiosity and Education in Russia, by Inna Naletova, GfK Rus’, Institute for Market Research, Moscow, Russia

Nationalism, Religion and The Muslim-Christian Relationship: Teaching Ethics and Values in Egyptian Schools, by Johanna Pink, University of Tuebingen

The Role of Religion in the Emergence of Civil Society in Lithuania, by Andrius Navickas (New Religions Research and Information Centre, Lithuania)

New Religious Movements’ Opinions on the Hungarian Society, by Péter Török, Department for the Studies of Religion, University of Szeged, Hungary

Peculiarity of the New Age Movement in a Catholic Country: the Case of Poland, by Dorota Hall, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Unifying or Dividing? Sun Myung Moon and the Origins of the Unification Church, by George D. Chryssides, University of Wolverhampton, U.K.

Freedom of Religion, Freedom From Religion, and Respect for Religious Sentiments, by Gidon Sapir (Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Daniel Statman (Dept. of Philosophy, Haifa University, Israel)

Notes on the Aumist Religion, by PierLuigi Zoccatelli

Maybe Shambhala is here: Esoteric Quests in Latvia Today, by Solveiga Krumina-Konkova, doctor of philosophy, leading researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia

The "Quasi-Religion" of Reiki, by Andrea Menegotto, CESNUR

Dialogue between the New Age and the Protestant Churches in The Netherlands, by Reender Kranenborg

New Age and the Polish Right, by Zbigniew Mikolejko, Professor, Head of Department of Religious Studies, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland

From the MILS to the MIVILUDES - France's "Sect" Policy Since the Fall of the Socialist Government, by Régis Dericquebourg

The Image of Sects in the Polish Ultra-Catholic Press, by dr Monika Milewska, Assistant Professor, Departement of Religious Studies, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Ultra-modern democracies and governing the self : Towards a new process of subjectivation ?, by Christine Costa, PARIS VIII University – France, “Sciences of education” department, Research group PAIDEIA

Manifestations of Satanism in Catholic Lithuania: the case of www.satan.lt, by Milda Alisauskiene, New Religions Research and Information Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Extremism in New Religious Movements: A Russian Perspective, by Veronica Kravchouk