Marking the fifth year of the collaboration and scholarly work within the framework of the IRNRD, the Network has organized a series of scholarly events that include two conferences and two workshops. The themes of these events will reflect on issues bearing special importance for the contemporary discourse on the problems concerning religion, politics and democracy. At the same time, the thematic components and the design of these events express the ‘philosophy’ behind the five-year long scholarly undertaking of the Network: the inter- and multi-disciplinary character of the research, the combination of theoretical and empirical work, as well as our conviction regarding the importance of the intellectual traffic between the different cultural and religious contexts.