This collection explores the funding of religious heritage in the context of state support for religions. The importance of this state support is that on the one hand it illustrates the potential tensions between secular and religious values, whilst on the other it constitutes a relevant tool for investigating the question of the legitimacy of such financial support. The funding varies according to the national system of state-religion relationships and this is reflected in the range of countries studied, including: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

Anne Fornerod is a researcher at the CNRS-University of Strasbourg centre of research DRES. She did her PhD in public law at the University of Paris XI (2006). Her works address several issues in Law and Religion: religious heritage, principle of laïcité, State support for religions, chaplaincies, cemeteries and ECHR freedom of religion. She edited a book on chaplaincies in 2012 and published one book and several papers on cultural and religious heritage (2013). She was a member of the RELIGARE-project.